{"id":48708,"date":"2026-05-31T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48708"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:11:26","slug":"govt-issues-directive-to-control-misuse-of-visit-visa-pm-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/govt-issues-directive-to-control-misuse-of-visit-visa-pm-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues directive to control misuse of visit visa: PM Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 31: Prime Minister Balendra Shah has said a stern directive was issued to control misuse of visit visa.<\/p>\n<p>PM Shah said it in response to a query from Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) lawmaker Khusbu Oli in a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about the government&#8217;s announcement to implement a five-percent VAT on consumers using more than 50 units of electricity in a month, the PM said the tax aimed to enhance the capacity of electricity system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no likelihood of switching to a complete electric era immediately. If each household opts for using electricity for cooking, it will not be borne by the capacities of all transformers and sub-stations,&#8221; he justified, adding that government requires budget to develop the capacities of transformers and substations. So, the five percent VAT was introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 31: Prime Minister Balendra Shah has said a stern directive was issued to control misuse of visit visa. PM Shah said it in response to a query from Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) lawmaker Khusbu Oli in a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today. Responding to a question about the government&#8217;s announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48710,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48708\/revisions\/48710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}