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Oli Takes Initiatives for Talks with Chand Party As He Struggles to Stay Afloat WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 13 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 30.4 C -1.6 C Wednesday, March 03, 2021 | 19-11-2077 Bhairahawa Jumla Oli takes initiatives for talks with Chand party as he struggles to stay afloat The government forms a team under Home Minister Thapa to hold dialogue with Communist Party of Nepal, an armed outfit led by Dahal’s one-time trusted lieutenant. ANIL GIRI KATHMANDU, MARCH 2 Amid political uncertainties, the gov- ernment decided to move forward talks with the Communist Party of Nepal, led by Netra Bikram Chand, an armed outfit, in what many believe as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s bid to fish in troubled waters. While bringing any armed group to mainstream poli- tics is a laudable step, analysts say, Oli, who has lost his political legitimacy, is making attempts to stay afloat. RSS The Oli government, which by now KP Sharma Oli has lost the moral ground to govern after the Supreme Court overturned imposed on Chand-led party’s activi- its decision to dissolve the House, on ties, calling it a criminal outfit, in Tuesday said that it has formed a team March 2019. led by Home Minister Ram At least two leaders close to Oli said POST PHOTO: ANANDA GAUTAM Bahadur Thapa to hold dialogue that though the talks team has been Security personnel put out the fire that broke out at Dobhan Bazaar in Meringden Rural Municipality, Taplejung on Tuesday morning. The fire with the Chand party. Rajan formed under Thapa, the prime minis- destroyed around 49 houses and displaced 55 families. (Report on page 3) Bhattarai, Oli’s foreign relations ter himself has for quite a while adviser, has been named the only employed his own channels to reach member of the Thapa-led talks out to Chand and his party. team. The Communist Party of According to a leader, who spoke on Nepal, in response, also formed a condition of anonymity, Oli has been talks team led by Khadga Bahadur making efforts at political consolida- Challenges to manage sufficient doses Bishwakarma, with Udaya tion by attracting constituencies Bahadur Chalaune as a member. from across the spectrum—from As a first step, the Oli govern- rightists to ultra-leftist forces to con- ment, according to official sources, servative groups. of vaccine for the second phase is going to lift the ban that was >> Continued on page 2 Manufacturer has refused to sell jabs at $4, the price Nepal paid earlier, and WHO may not supply vaccines on time. This could lead to shortages for second dose for those above 55. ARJUN POUDEL The Serum Institute of India pro- KATHMANDU, MARCH 2 duces Covishield vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and When Nepal purchased two million AstraZeneca, the British-Swedish doses of Covishield vaccine last multinational pharmaceutical and month from the Serum Institute of biopharmaceutical company. India, it paid $4 per dose. But now the Covishield is the preferred choice company does not want to sell the vac- of Nepali authorities, as the country’s cine at that price as the demand for it existing system supports storage and continues to soar the world over. supply of the vaccine. According to a highly placed source Given the importance of securing at the Ministry of Health and the vaccine, the Cabinet had changed Population, the company has refused the payment guidelines to allow 80 to sell Covishield vaccine directly to percent payment in advance for the the government of Nepal at the price vaccines to the manufacturing compa- it had sold earlier. ny as the existing Public Procurement “Due to worldwide demand and lim- Act-2015 does not allow advance pay- ited production, the Serum Institute POST FILE PHOTO ment for goods and services the gov- of India has shown reluctance to sell Nepal has been using the Covishield jab. ernment procures. again at $4 directly to the govern- The company has already supplied ment,” the source told the Post, asking After the deal to buy the vaccine at one million doses and officials say not to be named. “We have to buy the $4 per dose was secured, Minister for another million doses will arrive soon. jabs paying additional amounts Health and Population Hridayesh “It will be difficult to purchase the through agents of the company.” Tripathi had said that the government same product at a higher price,” the With the World Health Organization had been fortunate to secure the deal Health Ministry source said. “The on February 16 authorising emergen- with the Serum Institute of India at $4. government has to clear the legal hur- cy use of Covishield, the global rollout The price for each dose was $1 more dles to pay an additional amount to of the vaccine supplies through Covax than what the company charged the the same product.” began and its demand went up. Indian government. >> Continued on page 2 Confusion reigns as officialdom keeps changing entry protocols for tourists as peak season begins Different agencies have different quarantine rules. The beleaguered tourism industry worries the season may be over before the government gets its act together. No one has a clear set of rules— from Nepal’s embassies, international airlines and tour operators to the Nepal Tourism Board and the Immigration Department—and they have been fixing the entry protocols in their own ways. “A few weeks ago, the Nepali embas- sy in Austria refused to issue visas to some Austrians after we submitted documents showing hotel reserva- tions for seven days for isolation pur- poses,” said Thaneshwor Guragain, manager of Seven Summit Treks, Nepal’s largest expedition organiser. “So we submitted paperwork showing hotel bookings for 10 days, and then they issued the visas,” he told the Post. POST FILE PHOTO As per the Department of Tourism, Entrepreneurs fear this could be another disappointing year for the travel and tourism sector. the prior approval documents required for entry to Nepal are a nega- SANGAM PRASAIN catastrophe. tive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) KATHMANDU, MARCH 2 A few weeks ago, the Department of report taken less than 72 hours before Tourism recommended that the gov- departure, hotel booking for at least Tourists and travel traders both are ernment amend the entry protocols seven days’ quarantine in Nepal and bewildered by the myriad entry for foreign tourists, particularly trek- insurance of at least $5,000 against protocols being issued, changed and kers and mountaineers, saying the Covid-19 per person. Tourists must go withdrawn by Nepali officialdom rules were vague. The Tourism into hotel quarantine for a minimum even as the tourism industry struggles Department issues permits for expedi- of seven days upon arrival in Nepal. to recover from the coronavirus tions to the Himalayas. >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K WEDNESDAY, MARCH 03, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL Challenges Oli takes initiatives for talks with Chand Confusion reigns as ... >> Continued from page 1 to manage Tourists are also required to take a PCR test on the fifth day of party as he struggles to stay afloat hotel quarantine at their own expense, and they will be allowed to go on their expedition or trek if they test negative. sufficient doses So far so good. >> Continued from page 1 had been the party’s target for years, in region, Oli was even making overtures But Tribhuvan International Airport has issued another circular After the Supreme Court quashed Oli’s Nakkhu, Lalitpur. The Chand party once with some royalist forces. saying that all passengers coming from the United Kingdom or South December 20 House dissolution move on in a while used to attack telephone tow- With the court order to restore the Africa as the first port of embarkation or transit have to go into of vaccine ... February 23 and ordered authorities to ers of the company in various parts of House, the April 30 and May 10 elections quarantine for five days only. New variants of the coronavirus have >> Continued from page 1 call a Parliament meeting within 13 days, the country. have been shelved, but the way Oli has been found in these two countries. According to the Public Procurement Oli has lost moral grounds to remain as But in the February 2019 blast, one been travelling to various parts of the But the quarantine requirement for tourists coming from other Act-2015, there must be an open bidding for the government head. He, however, has person died and another was injured. In countries and making speeches, makes it countries is seven days, and the Post asked the general manager of procuring items worth over Rs2 million not resigned and has been putting up a March that year, it carried out another look like he is out on the hustings, seek- the airport Pratap Babu Tiwari why it was so. and it also prohibits the purchase of goods brave face. blast in Kathmandu. There was no ing votes. “We have issued the circular based on the Health Ministry’s guide- by paying more than what was paid earlier Since Oli apparently is in a minority casualty. But two back-to-back blasts On Tuesday also, while addressing a lines. We don’t know why there is a five-day quarantine requirement for it. The Health Ministry has already in the Parliamentary Party as well as the prompted the government to impose a mass gathering in Jhapa, Oli said if any- for tourists coming from the United Kingdom and South Africa.” requested the Serum Institute of India to 441-member Central Committee, he has ban on the party’s activities.
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