At a committee meeting on Friday at Singha Durbar, lawmakers shared their worries about the slow progress on Nepal’s new Parliament building. Even after giving extra time, the work is still not finished.
Nepali Congress lawmaker Pratima Gautam said this shows how poorly the country’s infrastructure is doing. She asked why no fines were charged for the delay and why so few workers were on site. “Showing progress on paper isn’t the same as getting the job done,” she said.
Communist Party of Nepal (UML) lawmaker Prabhu Hajara criticized the repeated deadline extensions and unfinished work. He said this reflects badly on the country’s infrastructure and stressed the building must be completed on time.
Lawmaker Madan Kumar Sah from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) said he visited the site recently and saw the work was so slow it might take more than two years to finish if things don’t change. He also pointed out that only a tiny bit of the planned July work was done.
UML lawmaker Saraswati Subba was concerned about the low number of workers during inspections. She asked if the new building would really be ready for the winter parliamentary session given the current situation.
All the lawmakers urged the government and contractors to stop extending the deadlines and finish the project as planned. They warned that these delays hurt the country’s infrastructure and called on everyone involved to take responsibility and act fast.
