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Kavrepalanchok. Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Balram Adhikari, has said that anyone who engages in illegal activities in cooperative organizations will be brought to justice. Addressing the silver anniversary and foundation day program of the Jyoti Mirmire Collective Savings and Credit Cooperative Society in Panauti, Kavrepalanchok today, he said that those who take loans from the cooperative and do not repay them have created a ‘salhuiniya’ saying that ‘all cooperatives are wrong’ and that those who do wrong will be brought to justice.
‘Some parties are trying to create confusion that all cooperatives are wrong, that loans do not have to be paid, do not be under the illusion that loans taken from cooperatives do not have to be paid, we will investigate and recover the property of those who do not repay the loan and the entire family in the same household, and we have also issued a notice that the passport will be withheld,’ Minister Adhikari said.
He said that the property of the cooperative directors who engage in illegal activities will be seized However, he claimed that the savings of the victims would be returned. He said, ‘We have already returned the money of more than 6,600 savers in a few months, and we are in the process of returning the money of some savers soon.’
Minister Adhikari said that the troubled Cooperative Resolution Committee and the ministry’s department are working to resolve the problems of cooperatives. ‘An ordinance on cooperatives has been brought after discussions with stakeholders related to cooperatives, the government has taken forward the Cooperative Regulatory Authority through an ordinance, arrangements have been made for the mobilization of an information center, and arrangements have been made to set up a fund, and the tribunal has also been taken forward,’ he said. He also said that some unresolved issues would be addressed by a replacement bill.
Minister Adhikari reiterated that the illusion has been spread that even if some do wrong in the 31,400 cooperatives across the country, all are bad. He said, “There are excellent and award-winning cooperatives at the international, national, provincial and local levels, not all of them should be viewed in the same light.”
In a different context, Minister Adhikari informed that the two major parties, Congress and UML, formed a joint government for stability as the previous unstable government did not fulfill the dreams of the citizens. “This time, we will provide land rights to the people through the Land Commission. The government will move forward in a way that will break the despair that the commission is formed repeatedly but does not work,” he said. He urged all political parties to remember the commitment made to the people that they would provide land titles and ‘guarantee’ housing when they go to the elections. He said that they are going to bring a new Land Revenue Act and Survey Act.
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