KATHMANDU, Feb 29: Four parliamentary committees under the federal parliament are meeting at Singha Durbar on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that the government is prioritizing the implementation of instructions given from both the house of the federal parliament and the parliamentary committees.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Speaker Devraj Ghimire has held discussions with the parliamentary thematic committee chairs over the operation of parliament's meetings, from the forthcoming session, by preparing a calendar.

KATHMANDU, Jan 14: Three parliamentary committees held their meetings today.

BUTWAL, Dec 31: The election for the parliamentary committees under the Lumbini Province Assembly has been postponed. Despite initially scheduling the leadership selection election for the upcoming Tuesday, the province assembly issued a notice on Sunday, announcing the postponement.

KATHMANDU, Nov 4: With the end of the monsoon session of the Federal Parliament on Thursday night, the parliamentary parties and parliamentary committees have fallen silent. Even in the absence of a session, the various committees that are called ‘mini parliaments’ should be active, but the committees are not active.

KATHMANDU, Oct 10: Three parliamentary committees are meeting at the same time today.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Four parliamentary committees are meeting at the same time today. It is said that the meeting of the Finance Committee will start shortly.

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Today, six parliamentary committees are concurrently convening their meetings.

KATHMANDU, Sept 7: Three parliamentary committees are convening meetings today. First, the International Relations and Tourism Committee will meet at 10:30 AM to discuss the Prime Minister's upcoming foreign visits.

KATHMANDU, Aug 28: All 10 parliamentary committees are meeting at the same time today. The meeting will start at 3 PM.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: The parliamentary party of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) convened to discuss the upcoming nominations for the chairmanship of all thematic parliamentary committees.

KATHMANDU, Aug 8: After an agreement between the ruling parties and the main opposition party, preparations are being made to elect the chairpersons of the parliamentary committees. In the meeting of the top leaders held on Monday, it was agreed that the Nepali Congress (NC) will chair four committees, UML three committees and Maoist Center two committees. Similarly, Janata Samajwadi Party, Unified Socialist Party and Janamat Party will chair one committee each.

KATHMANDU, July 30: Lawmaker and secretary of the main opposition party, CPN-UML, Yogesh Bhattarai has called for giving full shape to the parliamentary committees.

KATHMANDU, May 16: The parliamentary committees will come into existence finally six months after the formation of the House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, April 17: Lawmakers have called on the government to be accountable to the parliament and implement the directives given by the parliamentary committees.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: Today's meeting of the House of Representatives has reshuffled members of various parliamentary committees.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Prime Minister KP Oli has expressed dissatisfaction with lawmakers of his own party, especially those heading the parliamentary committees, who have not been toeing the party line over key decisions. He has asked them to defend the government's “good work” through all available political forums and through social media platforms.

Supremacy of the House

September 18, 2019 02:00 am

Days before the country is set to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Constitution of Nepal 2015, Speaker of the House of Representatives Krishna Bahadur Mahara warned parliamentary committees from issuing directives that obstruct the functioning of the government.

KATHMANDU, Sept 19: The Parliament Secretariat has announced election date to appoint chairpersons of 10 different thematic committees under the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: After the deferral of election thrice, 10 thematic committees of the House of Representatives are all set to get their respective chairperson on Friday with the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) finalizing the heads of various parliamentary committees.