Secretaries of different Village Development Committees (VDCs) in northern Gorkha are yet to take the preliminary draft of the new constitution to the villages.
VDC secretaries, who received the photocopies of the draft from the Draft Suggestion Collection Team, have not taken the draft to Samagaun, Lho, Prok, Chumchet, Chhekampar, Sirdibas, among other VDCs in northern belt, citing obstruction of road due to landslide following the earthquake.
Secretary of Samagaun VDC Bed Prakash Dhakal said that they failed to take the constitution draft to the VDC for feedback due to landslide. "I have managed to collect feedback from the Samagaun folks who I met at the district headquarters," he said.
Some other Secretaries claimed they have collected the feedback through telephone.
Chief at the District-based Draft Feedback Collection Committee, Mahendra Prasad Sankhi, said that they have provided the constitution draft to 60 VDC Secretaries to take it to their respective VDCs. A total of 1,800 drafts have been brought to Gorkha for the same, he added.
Lawmakers Chinkaji Shrestha, Hitraj Pandey and Chham Bahadur Gurung are at Gorkhabazaar to collect people's feedback on the constitution draft. Similarly, former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is scheduled to visit the district today to take part in the deliberation on the draft. RSS