PM Koirala not to tolerate misuse of relief funds
Kathmandu, May 25, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said that
anyone who misuses the rescue and relief fund should be jailed.
While taking suggestions from the National
Information Commission for implementing transparency in relief operations, PM
Koirala added that the government was conducting the relief operations in a
free and fair manner.
PM Koirala further urged all to generously
support the government for relief operations as the government was conducting
every relief operation following the criteria and legal provisions as well.
The monitoring agencies were active to monitor
all the expenditures of the government therefore there was no confusion of
misusing the funds.
Prime Minister
Koirala clarified that all the relief and reconstruction operations should be
conducted through the government mechanism.
PM Koirala even
refuted the rumours that the government was corrupt and partial in relief
distribution.
Similarly, the
commission has urged the PM Koirala to disseminate authorized news and
precautionary information about any possible natural disaster.
Chief
Commissioner at the commission Krishna Hari Banskota while submitting the
recommendations to PM Koirala, urged the government to arrange special package
for media persons who are mobilized in the quake affected risky zones. He
further pointed out the need of imparting precaution training to the media
persons with necessary equipments.
Likewise, chief
commissioner Banskota urged the government to issue a public notice for
providing relief package to the media houses and media equipments that were
damaged due to the quake.
The commission
has stated that the buildings of
National News Agency, Radio Nepal,
Nepal Television, Gorkhapatra
Sansthan, Kantipur Publications, Naya
Patrika Daily, Rajdhani Daily, Nepal Republic Media, Kamana News,
Nepal News Network International, The Himalayan Times, Karobar Daily, Arthik Aviyan Daily and Himalaya Times were
damaged by the quake.
Meanwhile, the
commission submitted its suggestion and a memorandum letter prepared by 61
mediapersons including RTI campaigner Taranath Dahal to PM Koirala.