Govt active in curbing corruption: PM

Kathmandu, July 30

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said on Sunday that the government was active in curbing corruption. 

“It is not that corruption has increased now, but it has been so due to the arrest of increasing number of the corrupt officials,” he said while talking with a delegation led by former Deputy Prime Minister Chitra Bahadur KC, chair of Rastriya Janamorcha.

He said that the government wouldn’t spare any corrupt individual and would not favour any high officials due to their high posts. 

PM Oli reiterated that the government wouldn’t spare anyone who had encroached the public land and all invaded land and occupied by land-mafia would be brought to the government’s ownership through legal remedies. 

“The investigation on Lalita Niwas land was initiated by the present government but some people are making hue and cry as if the land was encroached by the government itself,” he said. “What did the previous governments do regarding the land scam? It is a pity that the same leaders are blaming us,” he added. 

The KC-led delegation had met the PM to demand the establishment of an Area Administration Office in Galkot of Baglung district. 

Accepting the memorandum from the leader, PM Oli said that he was positive about developing the office in Galkot since the government had the policy to provide hassle free and fast service to all people. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 31 July 2019.