Gyawali reappointed NRA CEO

Kathmandu, Aug. 15: The government has reappointed Sushil Gyawali as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the post-quake reconstruction body.

A Cabinet meeting on Tuesday took a decision to this effect.

Gyawali was appointed as the CEO of the NRA by the KP Sharma Oli-led government about two and a half years ago, but the successive government led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda sacked him from the post and reappointed Prof. Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel.

After Dr. Pokharel resigned from the post to contest in the federal election last year, former secretary Yuba Raj Bhusal was given the responsibility of the reconstruction body. But the present government sacked Bhusal last month.  

Gyawali had filed a writ at the Supreme Court seeking his reinstatement to the post. However, as the government decided to entrust him with the responsibility, he said that he would withdraw the writ.

Political interference in the NRA has resulted in confusion in the beneficiaries and delay in grant distribution.

The reconstruction body had asked the quake-hit families to collect the Rs. 150,000 second installation of the house reconstruction grant by the end of the last fiscal year. But about half of the beneficiaries have not claimed the second tranche of the grant.

However, the NRA has not taken any decision about the issue due to the absence of the chief in the organisation.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 16 August 2018.