Dorji Khandu

Being an Engineer by Profession and a Servant Leader by Passion.

The House today resumed its deliberation on the five recommendations proposed by the Legislative Committee (LC) on the review report on Consolidation, Repeal and Publication of Legislations presented yesterday, 30 November 2021.

While the House supported the recommendations as proposed by LC on the review report on Consolidation, Repeal and Publication of Legislation, the Honโ€™ble Members also suggested additional recommendations to the Committee on simplifying and creating awareness on the existing laws, rules and regulations. As highlighted by the committee, the Honโ€™ble Members also recommended repeal of the Education City Act which is the lone legislation that could be repealed immediately and to also explore the procedure in repealing other obsolete laws. Recommendations on the need to further carry out in-depth research to identify obsolete laws in the country and make the existing policies, guidelines, rules and regulations, and international conventions, treaties and agreements consistent with the laws adopted by the parliament by the relevant ministries, agencies, and stakeholders were also proposed by the Honโ€™ble members amongst others.

The House assigned the Committee to revisit the recommendations taking into consideration the additional recommendations proposed by the Honโ€™ble Members and present the final recommendations to the House for approval.

๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐›๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž (๐๐‘๐„๐‚) ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ž๐ฐ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐„๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ
The Natural Resources and Environment Committee (NREC) presented its review report on State-Owned Enterprises (SOEโ€™s), an in-depth deliberation took place on the five recommendations proposed by the Committee. The Committee also clarified the issues raised by the Honโ€™ble Members on the proposed recommendations.

Hon’ble Member Tirtha Man Rai, Chairperson of NREC briefly stated the background, problem-statement and the objectives of the report and proposed five recommendations to the House.

Stating the existing number of SOEs in the country, the Honโ€™ble Member reported that the objective of reviewing the issues is to understand the operation and management of SOEs under the Ministry of Finance for effective and efficient service delivery.
Highlighting the problem statement, he reported that the general perception is that SOEs compete with the private sector and crowd out the private firms due to favourable government terms. Besides, SOEs have been established rampantly raising concerns of their establishment for the execution of political pledges.

The Committee recommendations include Reconstitution of SOEs; exploring the possibility of establishing Farm Shop Services by the gewogs; location for Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant (POL) Services; Waving off of a certain portion of Non-performance -loans; and the Government to develop and implement the Charter or Bylaws.

The House referred the report back to the Committee as most of the members were of the view that the recommendations of the Committee require further deliberation and clarification. Therefore, the House asked the Committee and the concerned members to revisit and finalize the recommendations for adoption.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž(๐†๐†๐‚) ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐งโ€™๐ฌ ๐€๐ง๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ
Specifying the provision of the Constitution, Honโ€™ble Member Surja Man Thapa, Chairperson of the GGC reported that the Annual Report 2020-2021 is the 14th report and the first report of the Third Commission submitted to the Druk Gyalpo, Prime Minister and the Parliament. He said that the report encompasses the performance for the period of 18 months, from January 2020 to June 2021.
As per the norm of the House, the Annual Report 2020-2021 has been assigned to the Good Governance Committee (GGC) for its review. The review report consists of Performance of the ACC; Organizational Outlook; Implementation Status of Resolutions of the Parliament; and Issues for deliberation and Recommendations.








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