"Visit Lumbini Year" - 2012

The government has decided to mark the year 2012 as ‘Visit Lumbini Year’.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers on Monday took the decision to this effect.

The cabinet also formed a high-level committee headed by UCPN (Maoist) chairman and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to oversee promotion and development of Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha.

The committee comprises Forest Minister Wakil Musalman, Nepali Congress lawmaker Minendra Rijal and UML lawmaker Mangal Siddhi Manandhar. The committee has also been mandated for preparing a master plan for the development of Lumbini.

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Recent News:Defence Minister says security forces will be deployed to halt PLA's recruitment drive

Defence Minister Bidhya Bhandari has said that the government would deploy security forces to stop the Maoist's People's Liberation Army (PLA) from undertaking fresh recruitment as per its recent announcement in response to the opening of vacancies in various positions by Nepal Army (NA) in its infantry division.

"The fresh recruitment drive announced by the Maoist's PLA is a direct violation of the peace agreement and country's law. As political and legal problems will arise if the Maoists starts taking in new recruits, the government will be forced to deploy security forces in all seven PLA cantonments," Minister Bhandari told select journalists at her ministerial quarter in Hariharbhawan on Thursday.

Defending the NA's decision to open vacancies for 3,464 personnel in various positions, she said that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) doesn't prohibit the Army to recruit new personnel within the ceiling of 95,000, the total strength when the agreement was signed in 2006.

In response to the Army's decision to start regular recruitment, PLA on Tuesday announced vacancy for 12,000 personnel.

Minister Bhandari said the announcement by PLA to carryout fresh recruitment at a time when the Maoists are facing pressures from all sides to transform itself into a "civilian party" is being taken "very seriously" by the government.

Recent News: Two new Maoist CA members sworn in ahead of PM election

Two newly nominated Constituent Assembly members from the Unified CPN (Maoist), Ram Kumar Paswan and Farmud Nadaf were sworn just ahead of the fourth round of the prime ministerial election Friday afternoon.

CA chairman Subas Nemwang administering oath of office and secrecy...

CA chairman Subas Nemwang administered oath of office and secretary to them at the CA building.

On Thursday, the Election Commission had approved their nomination in the two vacant seats.

The UCPN (M) nominated Pawan and Nadaf as its new CA members a day after the Supreme Court gave its verdict against a writ petition filed by Matrika Yadav and Jagat Yadav, the two former UCPN (M) lawmakers, challenging the decision of the Business Advisory Committee of the parliament to scrap their CA membership.

Current news:Fourth round of voting also fails to elect new prime minister as both Dahal and Poudel get rejected

The fourth round of election for a prime minister has also become fruitless as both Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress vice chairman Ram Chandra Poudel failed to secure clear majority in the run-off held at the legislature parliament in CA Hall, Naya Baneshwor on Friday.

CA chairperson Subas Chandra Nemwang had tabled a proposal for election of Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal as the new prime minister first.

After the voting by lawmakers on the proposal, Dahal failed to even secure a simple majority. 213 lawmakers voted in favor of Dahal while 99 voted against him. Some 156 lawmakers had remained neutral.

Immediately after that the CA chairperson put up NC vice chairman Poudel's name for voting. As expected, he also failed to garner a simple majority with 122 lawmakers voting for him while 245 voted against him. 194 lawmakers remained neutral.

Altogether 561 lawmakers participated during the voting for Poudel while 468 lawmakers of the 601 member legislature parliament participated during the voting for Dahal.

Earlier 12 lawmakers, who arrived late at the Constituent Assembly (CA) Hall, were not allowed to participate in the voting.

Meanwhile, the fifth round of voting for a prime minister will take place on August 18.

Mountaineering Regulation

The Royalty and the size of the Expedition Team:

1. More than one team may be permitted to climb Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) by a separate route each in one season.
2. A Royalty of US$50,000 has been fixed for Sagarmatha for a team consisting of seven members. The team may include 5 more members provided it pays extra US$ 10,000 for each additional member. The royalty includes trekking fee of the team members. The team members will be granted three months visa. Additional, US$ 20,000 will have to be paid by the team willing to scale Mt. Everest by normal south – east ridge route.
3. In all regions including Khumbu, an expedition team can have up to 7 members for the minimum, and 5 more members for the additional royalty.
4. The team already permitted to scale Mt. Everest will have to pay US$ 10,000 if it intends to change the accent route. It will have to pay additional US$ 20,000,if it intends to change the ascent route to normal south east ridge route
5. For peaks other than Mt. Everest, the team will have to pay an additional 25% of the royalty in US$ to change the ascent route.
6. Expedition team must complete all necessary administrative formalities and procedures in order to send back the garbage of the expedition team to their respective countries, after the completion of the expedition. The Ministry of Tourism & Civil Aviation will take necessary monetary deposit from them, which will be refunded after the dispatch of the garbage from Nepal.

Equipment for expedition

Government may provide the following facilities to any Mountaineering team which has obtained permit for mountaineering expedition:

1. To import and use temporarily, during the expedition such number of walkie – talkies not exceeding 12 and two sets of wireless having the capacity to communicate between the base camp and the nearest police station or the place where the means of telecommunication is available on the condition that such sets shall be taken back to the home country of the team after the end of the expedition.
2. Partial exemption of customs duty on the goods and materials imported for the expedition.
3. Two sets of wireless having the capacity to communicate between the base camp and the capital city Kathmandu, provide the mountaineering team desirous to use such facility shall have to hand over one of the two sets of wireless to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation, Mountaineering Section, for its use during the continuation of the expedition.