Kathmandu, Feb 13: The Supreme Court quashed a writ petition filed challenging the decision of Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) regarding the selection of its partner organisations in 32 districts.
A division bench, comprising judges Tej Bahadur KC and Purushottam Bhandari dismissed the writ on Sunday.
Twelve organisations based in Siraha and Saptari including the Sirjana Community Center who were prior to this serving as the PAF projects facilitators moved the apex court against the PAF’s October 23, 2016 decision on the selection of its partner agencies. In response to the writ, the SC through a certiorari directed the PAF on November 9 not to immediately enforce the October 23rd decision.
The court verdict had affected the enforcement of PAF projects targeted at poor and excluded communities in 32 districts.
The new court verdict has paved the way for PAF to bring its programmes in force, PAF Spokesperson Shreeram Subedi said.
The meeting of PAF Board of Directors agreed to downsize the number of its aide organisations to 165 from 300 on the basis of their performance evaluations as per its policy level decision.
The PAF programmes that are in force for 12 years in 55 districts cover some 0.8 million households. PAF programmes are supported by the Nepal Government, World Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development. RSS
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