MCC grant won’t be released unless Parliament approves, clarifies minister

Kathmandu, June 1

Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada has clarified that the federal government will launch a fund it might obtain beneath the controversial Millennium Challenge Corporation deal signed with the United States authorities for varied tasks solely when the Federal Parliament endorses the deal.

Though the federal government has included a piece of the grant on this 12 months’s funds plan as a potential supply of revenue, its implementation is conditional, in response to the minister.

After some lawmakers of the ruling Nepal Communist Party objected to the grant’s point out within the funds plan, the occasion’s secretariat had determined final Saturday that its implementation can be conditional.

Accordingly, the minister gave his clarification in his response to the lawmakers queries in the course of the House of Representatives assembly on Monday.

The 2017 deal nonetheless awaits its implementation as Parliament has not endorsed it, apparently owing to variations inside the ruling occasion.

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Published on June 1st, Monday, 2020 12:56 PM

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