Kathmandu: The government has formed a committee led by former Secretary Sharada Prasad Trital to search for all property in the Kathmandu Valley that belongs to Tribhuvan University (TU), the oldest university in Nepal.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 29 formed the committee, which comprises former joint secretaries Mahendra Kumar Thapa and Janaki Bhallav Adhikari, and TU expert member Professor Dr. Prem Sagar Chapagain, according to Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma.
An under-secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has been designated as the member secretary of the committee. They will prepare a substantive report after seeking all the properties of TU within the valley.
Trital also led the Lalita Niwas land grab probe committee, which uncovered the transfer of land next to the prime minister’s residence and the central bank office to individuals through collusion with top politicians, bureaucrats, and middlemen.
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