नेपालको संविधानसभा

To make the constitution making process systematic and regular in thematic form, the Rule 66(3) of the Constituent Assembly Rules, 2065 (2008) has contained the provision to form a Committee for Restructuring of the State and Distribution of State Powers. As per the provision of the Rules, a 43 member-committee for Restructuring of the State and Distribution of State Powers was formed on 15 December 2008 and the committee was reformed by the CA on 10 January 2009 and on 19 January 2009. The Chairperson of the Committee is Hon. Lokendra Bista Magar. The committee has the mandate to prepare a list of activities to be carried out on the concerned subject, to collect relevant materials on the subjects and to conduct discussions and studies and prepare a preliminary draft, including a concept paper with technical advice from specialists on the subject under the working areas of the Committee. In this way, on the basis of given mandate, the committee has submitted the draft report including a concept paper on 21 January 2010, and CA has already completed the discussion on the report. The Rule 66(3) of the Constituent Assembly Rules, 2065 (2008) has given the following mandates to the committee to submit the report by preparing the preliminary draft along with concept paper on the subjects assigned to individual Committee:

·              The structure in the federal democratic republican form of the state

·              The principles and bases for determining the areas of the federal units

·              Delimiting the boundaries and naming of each of the federal units

·              Division of legislative, executive and judicial powers among the governments in various levels of federal units

·              Determining the contents of working areas of federal units of various levels and the common subjects

·              Determination of interrelationship of legislative, executive and judicial powers among federal units

·              Mechanism for adjudication of disputes that may arise between the federal units

·              Other necessary matters relating to the working areas of the Committee

Publications(2)
Draft and Concept Papers(3)
CA Members belonging to the committee(42)