With the CA Committee on State Restructuring and Distribution of State Powers (SRDSP) making its preliminary draft report and concept paper ready, the CA has concluded the task of preparing the preliminary draft reports.
Out of the total 11 thematic committees, 10 had already prepared their reports and submitted them to the full CA for discussion.[break]
Chairman of the CA committee on SRSDP, Lokendra Bista Magar, handed in the report to CA Chairman Subas Nembang amid a function at Singha Durbar Thursday afternoon.
The committee late Wednesday night completed the task of delimiting the proposed provinces, providing them names and defining the jurisdiction of the three tiers of government -- central, provincial and local -- under the new constitution, among other things.
The Committee on System of Governance (SG) tabled its preliminary draft report at the CA on Thursday evening while deliberations on the report prepared by the CA Constitutional Committee (CC) concluded in the afternoon. SG Chairman Shambhu Hajara Dusadh tabled his committee´s report after CC Chairman Nilambar Acharya responded to queries on the report raised by CA members. Deliberations on eight other thematic committees have already concluded in the CA.
Nembang termed the accomplished work an important achievement. "Today, we have completed an important task. In fact it´s a historic achievement because a people´s representative body has created a strong and absolute ground in the constitution writing process for the first time in the country´s history," Nembang said while receiving the state restructuring report.
He said that with this latest progress at the thematic committees, the CA has succeeded in creating a strong foundation for expediting the constitution writing process.
With a view to expedite the constitution writing process, the CA has also decided to amend a provision in its regulations on forwarding preliminary draft reports to the CC, to create a single integrated report compiling all 11 reports.
According to the regulations, the CA can forward all 11 thematic committee reports to the CC simultaneously only after the full CA concludes deliberations on all the reports. "But we wanted to forward to the CC reports which have already been discussed in the House before the CA concludes deliberations on the remaining reports so that we can take up both the tasks -- deliberations in the full House and compilation in the CC-- simultaneously," Nembang said, adding, "Therefore, we decided to expedite the process by amending the regulations." According to him, the CA will forward the amendment proposal to the House within a couple of days.
The integrated draft report will be discussed in the House. Feedback and suggestions on the integrated report will be taken from the people. CA members will visit the districts and their constituencies to get feedback from the people. The report will then be amended again as per the feedback and tabled for discussions in the House. Along with several other rounds of discussions, the aforementioned tasks need to be completed by May 28, the final deadline for promulgating the constitution.
Failing to meet deadlines, the CA has already made adjustments to its calendar of events for the eighth time without, however, extending the final deadline.
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