Parliamentary Secretariat on Tuesday said that there was no need to enact separate law to ensure right to employment as guaranteed by the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007.
Forwarding a letter to the Supreme Court in response to the public interest litigation, the Parliamentary Secretariat said there was no need to do so as there have been already such laws in existence.
Joint-secretary Tek Prasad Dhungana submitted the written explanation to the apex court on behalf of the secretariat. A public interest litigation was filed by Prem Bahadur Khadka in the Supreme Court seeking its order to the government to enact law to implement the fundamental rights guaranteed by Article 18 of the Interim Constitution.
In the letter, the secretariat has also mentioned that the government was planning to make the employment sectors broader. The secretariat has also claimed this subject to be a purely political issue and the apex court should not intervene.
The petitioner had claimed that the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet and the parliament had done nothing to implement the constitutionally guaranteed right.
The secretariat, in its explanation, has claimed that the government has already put in place Foreign Employment Act, 2007, and Civil Service Act, 2007, Parliament Secretariat Act 2007, Working Journalist Act-2007 and has amended Nepal Medical Service Act, 1997, University Act and Education Act to ensure employment to the citizens.
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