KATHMANDU, Dec 3: The Parliament Secretariat has been waiting government response about the progress on the two major bills that the government and the legislature want to endorse before prorogation of the current House session.
Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar said she has so far not ended the parliament session with a view to pass the bill to establish the Reconstruction Authority and the other bill to amend the new constitution.
The previous government, just ahead of forming the present coalition, had registered the bill to amend the new constitution's provision on ensuring proportional inclusive representation of marginalized communities in the state organs.
Though the bill is registered at the Parliament Secretariat, the government hasn't tabled it in the House meeting for deliberations.
The government wants to table it for discussions among the lawmakers only after the agitating Madhesi parties accept the bills while the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) is for endorsing the bill immediately.
"The government side has informed us that there is no point in endorsing the bill if that is not accepted by the agitating side because it would be illogical to amend the same provision repeatedly," said a source at the Parliament Secretariat.
As the talks between the ruling and the agitating parties have been taking place intermittently, Speaker Gharti Magar has been expecting the negotiations to make some headway in passing both the bills.
The bill on establishing the Reconstruction Authority has been stuck at the parliament's bills committee as leaders from the major political parties have been locking horns over the appointment of their candidate as the chief executive officer at the powerful body.
The NC wants to draft the bill with a provision that allows continuity of the NC-proposed CEO while the ruling parties want to start it from the scratch.
"If it takes indefinite time and we find no progress, I will talk to the government and political parties about proroguing the House," Gharti Magar told a group of journalists at her chamber at Singha Durbar on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Speaker Gharti Magar has directed all the House committees not to issue any instruction to the government bodies that contradict the earlier instructions of other House committees.
The speaker's move came as various committees' instruction in the past clashed with the directives of other House committee to the same government body on the same issue.
"We received complaints from some ministries that they were told to furnish details on a particular issue by different House committees and that such trend gave unnecessary hassles for government agencies," said the speaker.
At times, parliamentary committees' instruction had created confusion to the government agencies as to which committee's instruction to follow when ministries received different instructions from different committees on a single issue.
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