At present, senior citizens above 65 years are entitled to receive Rs 3,000 in monthly social security allowance. Through the budget for 2019/20, the government had revised the allowance amount from the previous Rs 2,000 a month. The senior citizen allowance scheme was for the first time introduced by former finance minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari […]
Bharat Mohan Adhikari was a communist leader of Nepal, who is credited for introducing the popular old-age pension scheme and “build your village on your own” project (आफ्नो गाउं आफै बनाउ), as a finance minister during the first communist government in the country. He was born in 1936 at Bhawarpurna VDC in the Mahottari district […]
Did you know? Note: He was married to Rani Usha Raje Scindia, daughter of Maratha Scindia, King of the Gwalior State, one of the largest, richest and highest-ranking 21-gun-salute princely states in India.
The Supreme Court of Nepal has reinstated the House of Representatives, the lower house of the bicameral parliament, by quashing a decision of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. The bench consisting of CJ Rana and justices Bishwambhar Prasad Shrestha, Anil Kumar Sinha, Sapana Pradhan Malla, and Tej Bahadur KC has ordered the government to summon the […]
