7-member panel formed to end Nepal parliament deadlock

A seven-member panel was today formed by Nepal's ruling and opposition parties to find ways to end an ongoing logjam in parliament over the mismanagement of post-quake reconstruction and the release of NRs 200,000 in financial aid to the survivors.
The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has been disrupting House proceedings for the past a few days demanding immediate release of the financial package to the victims of last year's devastating quake that killed nearly 9,000 people.
It has also accused the government of not making enough "progress" in the post-earthquake reconstruction.
The committee formed today has three members from the NC, two from Prime Minister K P Oli's CPN-UML and one each from CPN (Maoist-Centre) and Rashtriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal.

It will try to find solutions to resolve the impasse. A meeting of the panel is schedule for Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the NC continued its disruption in the Parliament over the government's failure to release a lumpsum of NRs 200,000 to quake survivors and also over their demand to enlist missing persons in the list of quake-hit households.

NC lawmakers protested in the House soon afterSpeaker Onsari Gharti announced the start of the proceedings.
Ram Sharan Mahat of NC said they were forced to disrupt the House asthe government has neglected their demand for providing a lump sum of NRs 200,000 toquake survivors.

"We hope that the task force would complete its assignment and the Parliament meeting can take place tomorrow," he added.