Parliamentary committee gets seven more days

Kathmandu: The deadline of the parliamentary probe committee formed to probe into the issues of the budget has been extended for a week. Earlier, the committee was given 10 days to submit its report.

A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) held Thursday has unanimously passed a motion to extend the committee’s timeframe for one more week.

At the HoR meeting, Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota tabled a proposal for the timeframe extension of the committee as per Rule 166 of the HoR Regulations-2075.