Cabinet meeting forms committee to pick Chair of Insurance Authority

Kathmandu, Dec 26: The government has formed a recommendation committee for the appointment of the chairperson of the Nepal Insurance Authority.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday formed such a committee under the coordination of a National Planning Commission member, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said on Thursday announcing the decisions of the cabinet meeting.

The finance secretary and Joyti Chandra Ojha are the members of the committee. Likewise, the cabinet meeting has formed a recommendation committee under the chair of the Chairman of the Public Service Commission for the appointment of members to the Teachers Service Commission.

The Vice Chancellor of Tribhuvan University and the Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology are the members of the committee. Minister Gurung said that the cabinet meeting has decided to fix penalties, as per Chapter 3 of the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2008, for those involved in misappropriation, human smuggling, Hundi, virtual currency, match-fixing, embezzlement, and operation of casinos without taking a license.

Furthermore, the meeting has given theoretical permission to formulate a bill on facilities for the former VIPs. According to Minister Gurung, the cabinet meeting appointed members of the National Sports Council. The appointees include Shanti Kumari Chaudhary (Jhapa), Ananda Kumar Jha (Saptari), Suwarna Shrestha (Lalitpur), Kamal Bahadur Bhattarai (Sarlahi), Himal Kumar Shrestha (Gulmi), Nanda Basyal (Surkhet), Jagat Singh Dhami (Darchula), and Bhan Bahadur Chand (Kanchanpur).

The cabinet meeting also promoted Joint Secretary Madhu Prasad Bhetuwal to the post of Secretary and deputed him at the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat, Minister Gurung said. —RSS