Kathmandu, Jan. 29
A delegation of International Relations and Tourism
Committee (IRTC) of the House of Representatives is embarking on an official
visit of India for 8-days from January 30 to February 6.
The 12-member delegation, including eight members of the
committee and four staff of the Parliament Secretariat, is visiting the
southern neighbour at the invitation of the chairman of the Standing Committee
on External Affairs (SCEA) of Indian Federal Parliament. The External Affairs
Committee includes 31 members – 21 from the lower house and 10 from the upper
house.
Chairman of the IRTC, Raj Kishor Yadav, said that the visit
is aimed at exchanging experience, knowledge and practice of the parliamentary
system as well as discussing Nepal-India relations.
The Nepali parliamentary delegation will hold a meeting with
the SCEA and Speaker of the lower house of Indian parliament – Lok Sabha – Om
Birla. The delegation will discuss about the facilities at the parliament
building of India and working styles of the committee including the
organisation of meetings.
The visiting delegation is also scheduled to hold separate meeting
with External Affairs Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar, and Minister for
Tourism, G Kishan Reddy.
"We will observe new parliament building of India and
will see how it has been designed and managed so that we could find out better
ways to manage our new parliament of building," said Yadav.
"India is a large democracy. But is stable and there is
parliamentary stability despite diverse demographics and political ideologies.
There are several things that we need to learn," he added.
He said that students and patients going to India now have
to pay fees as SAARC citizens while earlier it was same as for Indians. We will
request lawmakers there to take this issue into considerations, said Yadav.
He maintained that economic and business issues will get
priority in their deliberations.
Likewise, the Nepali delegation will request Indian Tourism
Minister to keep Nepal in the priority list to send their government employees
in vacation. About 50 million Indians go out of country as tourists, and government
employees get 10 days casual leave in a calendar year for tourism activities.
Nepali delegation is also scheduled to meet the chief
ministers and governors of Maharastra and Uttar Pradesh of India, hold
interaction with Nepali diaspora in Mumbai and Delhi. It will make
observational tours to Goa and Varanasi. It will also attend a programme at the
Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi.
Yadav had already discussed the potential issues of
deliberations with the former ambassadors and experts. Meanwhile, the
delegation also called on Speaker Devraj Ghimire and Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' on Monday and discussed about the visit.
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