By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Nov. 28: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota said on Friday that the laws of the country should be people-oriented.
“Lawmakers need to initiate to formulate people-oriented laws,” he said during an interaction with the Speakers of Provincial Assemblies here.
Speaker Sapkota said that poor inter-governmental coordination among different layers of government was the reason for the weak public delivery.
Speaker Sapkota further said that people’s representatives required orientations from their parties and parliament.
He said that policy corruption was because of lack of orientation to the lawmakers from their parties.
According to him, the country needs people-oriented policies, laws and regulations to achieve positive results. “Neither is there a complete democratic practice inside our political parties nor is it elsewhere, the federal parliament is also unable to manage for such training,” he said.
Speaker Sapkota said that the parliamentary panels should be more careful of the policy drafts because they were the responsible lawmakers to restrict policy corruption in the country by drafting balanced laws.  
Similarly, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timalsina said that the endorsement of federal and state interrelated laws had paved the ways for drafting local laws in each local level.
“Some major drafts are pending, lawmakers should initiate for their endorsement,” he added.
“The Law Ministry can coordinate on this.”     
Law Minister Shivamaya Tumbahamphe said that the government would assist the parliament to draft laws.