Implement Report
THE government has expressed its commitment to implement the report submitted to His
Majesty the King by the High-Level Property Assessment Judicial Commission in March this
year. The report, under the final stage of study by the government, is expected to go a
long way towards discouraging the tendency of the public officials to amass wealth through
unfair means. For this to happen, the implementation of the recommendations made by the
high-level commission should be carried out with utmost caution so that those who followed
its directives and filled up the forms given to them in an honest manner are not made to
suffer unnecessary hassles. Moreover, the process should be free from any influences and
prejudices, like Minister for Information and Communications Ramesh Nath Pandey, who is
also the government spokesman, said. There are many people who apparently showed their
earning which was not compatible with their positions of perks and privileges. Many others
who did not fill up the forms pose another problem. Just publishing their names may not
bring about the desired results.
The commission was formed more than a year ago with the
objective of making the public officials accountable to the people, who expect them to
perform their official duties as public servants and not abuse them for simply exercising
power and getting rich overnight by abusing their positions. Spreading the net around the
public officials alone would not eliminate corrupt practices which have plagued the
country for a long time. Corruption has its tentacles reaching into different components
of Nepali society and the public officials are only part of that pervasive menace.
Businesses, social works and even family organisations in the private spheres have failed
to live up to a standard of ethics that is desirable for our society to progress. In such
a grim scenario, what the government would have done by making the commission report
public and implementing it will be a significant gesture that all the corrupt could be
brought to justice. This is the message that needs to go loud and clear to all those
public or private establishments and individuals which abuse authority and resort to
unethical and corrupt practices for getting rich quick. For this, legal action against
those whose property documents are apparently false should be pursued in a firm manner.
Failing to do this, the people, as the commission has rightly forewarned, will lose faith
on such commissions formed from time to time.
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