Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has decided not to provide allowances to 11 lifetime academicians who have been receiving allowances for life.
A meeting of the Academy held on February 24, 2022 under the chairmanship of Chancellor of the Academy’s Academic Council, Bhupal Rai, had decided to stop the dual allowance of life members.
The Academy’s member-secretary Dr Giriraj Singh said that the court’s order and the Academy’s decision would be implemented after the writ petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court on March 1. Dhan Prasad Subedi informed. According to him, the court has approved the decision of the Academy to stop the dual facility of life members.
Former vice-chancellor Prof. Dr. The writ petition was filed by 11 life academic members including Basudev Tripathi. A division bench of Justices Manoj Kumar Sharma and Nripa Dhwaj Niraula on March 1 dismissed the writ petition.
From now on, those who do not get double benefits, Dr. Tripathi, Pvt. Dr. Chudamani Bandhu Regmi, Ganga Prasad Upreti, Pvt. Dr. Yogendra Prasad Yadav, Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha, R.D. Prabhas (Rajeshwari Dutt Chataut), Ashesh Kumar Malla, Dr. Dhruba Chandra Gautam, Toya Gurung, Tulsi Prasad Joshi (Tulsi Diwas) and Shashi Bikram Shah.
While the Academy had decided to withhold the allowances to the life members receiving salary and pension of government service or bodies, such lifetime academic members had been arguing that the honorary scholarship given on the basis of their academic contribution could not be termed as double facility or remuneration. Ghanendra Ojha had also filed a writ petition at the Academy demanding that the life members should not be given dual facilities.
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