Kathmandu, January 2
The federal government has prepared a draft of the law to ensure peace and order in the country. The new law, if it comes into effect as it is now, is likely to anger provincial governments as it has not heeded their suggestion.
The draft law has proposed that chief district officers will be posted in each district as a representative of the federal government. The powerful CDOs will have the right to supervise all district level officials.
The provincial governments, however, had suggested that the CDOs be kept under them so that there would not be any conflict between federal and provincial governments.
Though the bill reads that the CDOs work in coordination with both the governments as well as local units and they are expected to obey orders from the both central and provincial governments, the orders from federal government will be final in any case of conflict.
The Council of Ministers has recently endorsed the draft and is preparing to register at the Parliament Secretariat.
