Parliamentary committees take up Bhotekoshi disaster response and bills
Parliamentary committees took up the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster response and pending bills over the past week, and the National Assembly’s Legislation Management Committee passed two subcommittee reports on November 3.
Several of Nepal’s parliamentary committees announced or held meetings over the past week on the response to the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster and on pending bills, according to Nepali news outlets. Most of the reports are meeting notices that give each session’s time, place and agenda.
Disaster response and oversight
The parliamentary special committee on the impact of climate change in the Himalaya, climate justice and the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster was due to sit at 9:30 a.m. on November 6, 2026 in the Infrastructure Development Committee hall, Onlinekhabar reported, citing the Parliament Secretariat. Its agenda was to get the latest progress on post-disaster rescue, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development. Kharibot reported that on Monday, November 2, the same committee was to hear from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority on that work.
Separately, Baahrakhari and Reporters Nepal reported that the parliamentary special committee for the study and monitoring of the disaster in the Bhotekoshi and Kaligandaki corridors was to meet at 11 a.m. on November 3, 2026 in the hall of the Development, Economic Affairs and Good Governance Committee. It was to discuss the disaster in those corridors with officials of the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security and the Ministry of Health and Food Hygiene.
Legislative and policy reviews
In the National Assembly, Kharibot reported that the Federalism Strengthening and National Concern Committee was to meet at 11 a.m. on October 30, 2026 to discuss the preliminary report of its field monitoring. Kharibot and Nepal Samaya also announced a meeting of the Legislation Management Committee with the reports of two of its subcommittees on the agenda, one on measuring how acts are implemented and one on legislative inter-relationships. Nepal Press reported that the committee passed both reports unanimously on November 3.
In the House of Representatives, the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee was due to meet at 1 p.m. on November 3, 2026 to discuss the Reconciliation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2083 with the lawmakers who had submitted amendments, Nepal Samaya reported; the law minister and the ministry’s secretary were invited. In a later report, Nepal Samaya said the committee was to take stakeholders’ views on the same bill on November 5. Those due to take part included the Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, the chair and secretary of the Reconciliation Council, and the judicial committee coordinators of Kathmandu and Lalitpur metropolitan cities and Bhaktapur municipality. Representatives of the Nepal Bar Association and other bodies were invited.