Plan has been prepared by the Social Security Fund for providing it through the Peace and Development and Research Centre Consultancy selected after tender call, said Executive Director of the Fund, Kewal Bhandari, adding the plan is in final phase of implementation after amendment. [break]
It had not been fixed how much to contribute to the fund by the laborer, employer and trade union for lack of laws, and the act in preparation for amending has proposed that 10 percent should be contributed by all sectors, he said. For the time being, plans are made for facilities for work place accident, maternity protection, and medical facilities for those employed, he added.
In the plan, sick laborers will get 70 percent of their salary for three days to three months and post-delivery woman and those in accident during duty will get 50 percent of salaries for the period not able to attend office.
It has up to Rs. 20,000 as medical expense for providing upto 80 percent. Government has also prepared to provide facilities for unemployment, family and child care, elderly and dependant family.
The fund was arranged for the first time in the budget of 2066-67 BS and it has now reached 4.3 billion rupees by deducting one percent taxable income in remuneration, he said.
Politics overshadows art, literature: Prashrit
KATHMANDU: Senior litterateur, Modanath Prashrit, has said the instable politics in the country has shadowed Nepali art and literature. [break]
Speaking at a poetry symposium on Saturday, he said the development of literature was equally necessary for the development of the country.
Litterateur Prashrit said, "Metrical poetry has been more or less shadowed due to prose poems but it is still good for the literary development with a new strength."
During the programme, around a dozen poets including Dr. Bam Bahadur Thapa ´Jitali´, Ram Bahadur Pahadi, Prof. Gopi Krishna Sharma, Pratik Dhakal, Mohan Singh Pradhan, TN Regmi, Lal Bahadur Bhujel, Rajendra Dhungana, Radhika Panta, Kamala Shrestha, and Ganga Paudel read out poems.
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