{"id":432745,"date":"2026-07-17T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=432745"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:44:47","slug":"govt-loan-shark-victims-to-sign-formal-deal-today-following-singha-durbar-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/07\/17\/432745.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt, loan shark victims to sign formal deal today following Singha Durbar breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KATHMANDU<\/strong> \u2014 The government and protesting victims of predatory lending are set to sign a formal peace agreement today, concluding months of agitation after an institutional breakthrough at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high-stakes meeting at Singha Durbar aims to codify a preliminary verbal consensus reached between state officials and victims&#8217; representatives during recent field talks in Simara, Bara. Today&#8217;s decisive round of negotiations builds directly on intensive structural dialogue held by both delegations yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state&#8217;s negotiating committee is led by Pushkar Sapkota, Secretary at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, alongside Joint Secretary of the Home Ministry Kali Prasad Parajuli and Director General of the Department of Land Management Yogendra Prasad Dulal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims&#8217; advocacy alliance is coordinated by Avadhesh Kuswaha of Nawalparasi East, with a multi-district delegation comprising Manoj Paswan of Siraha, Rijan Ranamagar of Gorkha, Lakshmi Ghimire of Bhojpur, Kiran Pariyar of Bardghat West, and Nirgaraj Jaisi of Kailali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials close to the development indicate that the final text of the agreement is being reviewed for immediate execution later this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU \u2014 The government and protesting victims of predatory lending are set to sign a formal peace agreement today, concluding months of agitation after an institutional breakthrough at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. The high-stakes meeting at Singha Durbar aims to codify a preliminary verbal consensus reached between state officials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-432745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-featured","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432746,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432745\/revisions\/432746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432745"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=432745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}