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PM’s Agriculture Modernization Project Under Scrutiny

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PM’s Agriculture Modernization Project Under Scrutiny
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April 16: The government’s project to commercialize and modernize the agriculture sector has been embroiled in corruption.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested three persons involved in the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project in Parsa’s vegetable zone.

The anti-graft body has taken into custody Birendra Sinha, former chief of Agriculture Development Office, Parsa and two other officials of the zone  operation committee.

Sinha, accountant Satya Narayan Sahani and the committee chair Rameshwar Kushwa who had arrived at the CIAA headquarters in Kathmandu for recording their statements were arrested and sent into custody for further interrogation.

Sinha has been accused of corruption while constructing a building worth Rs 4.5 million for the project. Other officials and office bearers of the project have gone incommunicado after the arrests of the three officials. CIAA has written a letter to Parsa Police to arrest them but the police have turned a deaf ear to the request. A source at the anti-graft body said that police are reluctant to arrest them due to their political connection.

 

 

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