"Committees in the Constituent Assembly are meeting regularly and many of them have already finalized the tasks entrusted upon them. The constitution-making process will end as soon as political parties reach a minimum understanding on state restructuring and the form of governance," Sharma was quoted in a statement issued by the Nepali Embassy in Washington DC.
Addressing a seminar on ´The Challenge of a New Federal Nepal: Natural Resources, Economic Rights and Revenue Allocations´, Dr Sharma admitted that constitution-making process is taking time longer than originally thought.
"But it is not unique to Nepal. Other countries involved in writing the constitution had similar experiences," he said, referring to the experiences of countries like South Africa and complexities of construction making in the democratic regime.
Dr Sharma further informed the WB and Australian Aid officials that the committees comprise members from almost 25 parties and they are debating on all the constitutional clauses intensively. "Hence, the reports they have submitted are democratic in nature and have all the characteristics of the modern constitution," he added.
He also appreciated the Natural Resource Committee for coming up with amicable solutions to highly technical and complex issues like the ownership, use, benefit sharing and investment concern of natural resources and division of economic rights and revenue sharing.
The seminar was attended by high-level staff of the World Bank and representatives of think-tanks based in Washington DC. The participants had appreciated the work the committee, which comprises of the representative of parties with different ideologies.
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