Responding to the case field by the dissatisfied faction of ANFA led by Vice-presidents Karma Chhiring Sherpa and Bijay Narayan Manadhar and member Pankaj Nembang, a single bench of judge Mohan Bahadur Karki made such decision. Meanwhile, the executive committee meeting of the ANFA held on Tuesday also decided to call off the annual general assembly until Thursday citing technical reasons. The court issued the interim order on the basis of facility and balance of the petitioners. The court has called both the sides for discussion on Wednesday.In the complaint, the dissatisfied members have claimed that the ANFA did not inform them about the annual general assembly 60 days prior to the annual meeting as per the statute of the ANFA. They have also alleged NSC Member Secretary and Minister for Youth and Sports of keeping mum despite their demands to annul the general assembly. Few days earlier, the dissatisfied faction of ANFA had submitted a letter of memorandum to the Minister for Youth and Sports Purusottam Paudel and NSC Member Secretary Keshav Kumar Bista demanding the annulment of the general assembly.
The dissatisfied faction had filed a case against the Sports Ministry, Sports Minister, the NSC, NSC's Member Secretary, ANFA President and General Secretary.
ANFA, which has been plagued by internal disputes since last two years, was previously grilled by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Legislature-Parliament, Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority. Last year's annual general assembly of ANFA was also cancelled following the directives of the PAC.
Rs 200,000 each to triumphant members of SAFF U-19
The executive committee meeting of ANFA held on Tuesday decided to reward each member of the U-19 national team with Rs 200,000 each. Nepal had won the title of the SAFF U-19 Championship defeating India 5-4 on penalties on Saturday. ANFA has also decided to request sponsors and corporate houses to provide additional rewards to the players. ANFA will collect Rs 100,000 each from all 45 district associations affiliated with it for the purpose.
The meeting also approved to appoint French national Pratic Aussems as the head coach of the senior national team and senior coach Dhruba KC as the technical advisor of the national team for six months. KC was the coach before the arrival of Aussems.
Similarly, a five-member committee has been formed to run the ANFA Academy systematically under coordination of its Deputy General Secretary, Mani Kunwar. ANFA has also decided to form a futsal committee under coordinator of Basanta Aryal. Former General Secretary Lok Bahadur Shahi has been named the sub-coordinator. Former executive committee member of the football governing body Purna Man Chitrakar has been nominated the honorary member of the body for a year.
Meanwhile, ANFA has decide to allocate Rs 1 million each to 10 hilly districts of the country for ground maintenance and development of the game in the districts. Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Sindhupalchowk, Dolkha, Palpa, Syangja, Lamjung, Baglung and Jumla are the districts to get such privilege.
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