{"id":55344,"date":"2026-09-21T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55344"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:09:42","slug":"na-session-government-urged-to-review-a-two-day-weekly-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/na-session-government-urged-to-review-a-two-day-weekly-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"NA session: Government urged to review a two-day weekly holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Sept 21:<\/strong> The government has been urged to review the provision of a two-day weekly holiday, saying it has failed to bring substantial improvements in public service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a special hour of the National Assembly (NA) today, Ananda Prasad Dhungana of Nepali Congress said despite an-hour extension in office hours, while operating the offices just for five days in a week had not resulted in significant improvements in service delivery. &#8220;There are complaints that the provision has created difficulties in the daily lives of employees and it should be reviewed,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nIt is noted that the government implemented a two-day public holiday from the first day of 2083 BS (April 14), replacing the previous one-day weekly holiday. Under the new arrangement, government offices open an hour earlier from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Madan Kumari Shah (Garima) of CPN (Unified Socialist) echoed the need for the government to raise concerns over the recent devastating Bhotekoshi floods at international forums through climate change diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>CPN (UML)&#8217;s Mina Singh Rakhal demanded the government take action supplies of cooking gas on &#8216;black market&#8217; and its &#8216;artificial&#8217; shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Bishnu Devi Pudasaini called for the removal of value- added tax (VAT) from electricity tariff.<br \/>\nRajendra Laxmi Gaire of the Nepali Communist Party called for improvement to the Butwal-Palpa road section, citing that bad condition of roadway continues to contribute to fatal accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Somnath Portel of CPN (UML) stressed the need for all quarters to unite in relief and rescue efforts following the devastating floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 21: The government has been urged to review the provision of a two-day weekly holiday, saying it has failed to bring substantial improvements in public service delivery. Speaking at a special hour of the National Assembly (NA) today, Ananda Prasad Dhungana of Nepali Congress said despite an-hour extension in office hours, while operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55344"}],"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=55344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55347,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55344\/revisions\/55347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}