KATHMANDU: Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal has shared that legislators should pay attention in making laws suitable to the nation and citizens.

At a programme ‘Legislative and Non-legislative practices in parliamentary committees’ organised by the Former MP’s Forum, Nepal today, he presented the example how the practice of drafting bills has not been able to address practicality.

It is found that some of the bills drafted without involving users of the laws have failed to incorporate our geographical and awareness level, he argued.

“The users of laws do not know what type of laws will be made. We made laws and tried to impose it saying bring the laws into practice. The citizens are compelled to implement such laws,” the Speaker underlined.

Stating that the role played by former MPs to bring democracy in the country is extraordinary, he expressed the belief that the country would move ahead in the path of prosperity from the experience of seniors and their struggle in the then political situation as well as from the activism of young generation.

Forum Vice-President Sushila Sharma opined that the parliamentary practices would get a new height from the experience of former parliamentarians and activism of sitting parliamentarians.

Acting President of the Forum, Bishnu Bahadur Raut, shared that experts would present working papers on ‘Non-Legislative Practices in Parliamentary Committees’ and ‘Role of Parliamentary Committees in Implementation of International Treaty and Court Orders’.

Presidents of thematic committees of the House of Representatives and National Assembly, former lawmakers, Constitution Assembly members, sitting parliamentarians, General-Secretary of the Federal Parliament Secretariat, Secretary at the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, among others were present on the occasion.