KATHMANDU: The bill on Information Technology has been pending at the Development and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives for four months for lack of agreement.
Although the Committee meeting on Tuesday was scheduled to agree on the bill, the Committee has decided to sit again on the coming Sunday for it.
The ruling party lawmakers insisted on forwarding the bill to the House with correction on 36 points.
However, the lawmakers from major opposition Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) stressed that the bill could invite a host of problems if it is passed based on the majority of votes.
So, it needs to be forwarded by forging an agreement.
In a bid to forge consensus, the meeting presided over by Committee Chairperson Kalyani Kumari Khadka was also attended by Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota, former prime minister and NCP leader Jhalanath Khanal.
At the meeting, lawmaker Bahadur Singh Lama wrote a ‘note of dissent’ in the report of the subcommittee on IT Bill.
Lawmaker Bahadur Singh Lama shared that the Committee was striving to reach an agreement to forward the IT Bill.
The time is allocated till Sunday for the agreement.
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