The cabinet meeting on Monday has decided to provide relief to the families of the people who lost their lives in a chopper accident in Taplejung and also erect memorial pillars in Taplejung and Kathmandu in memory of the deceased persons.

Minister of State Minister for Information and Communications Dilendra Prasad Badu, who is also the spokesperson of the government, informed on Tuesday that the government has decided to provide a purse of one million rupees each to the families all 24 members including then Minister of State for Forest and Soil Conservation late Gopal Rai, who died in the ill-fated helicopter crash.

The government has posthumously promoted acting secretary Dr. Damodar Prasad Parajuli to the post of first class secretary and his family would be provided with the facilities he was entitled to. Late Parajuli, 56, Sharad Kumar Rai, 52, director general of Department of Forestry and Narayan Prasad Poudel, 53, would get facilities including gratuity after counting their optimum service period that is 60.

The meeting has also decided to arrange special provision for Kabita Rai, widow of late Sharad Rai to work as a ground staff at Nepal Airlines Corporation after her retirement from her current position of In-flight Supervisor. She would retire at the age of 50 from her current position.

Similarly, the government would arrange scholarships for the children of the deceased, Badu said.

Meanwhile, as the country is moving towards forming a new constitution by holding the elections of the constituent assembly, the cabinet has decided to scrap the public holiday on Constitution Day on November 9.

Likewise, the cabinet has decided to give authority of approving the appointments of chief justice of the Supreme Court, member of the Judicial Council, chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Attorney General and chief of the Public Service Commission to the Chief Secretary as per the Proclamation of the House of Representatives.

The same would be applicable to chief commissioner of the Election Commission, general secretary at the Parliament Secretariat, chief judge and judges at the appellate court, member at the public service commission, secretaries at the House of Representatives and Upper House and district court judges.

The government has decided to urge the government of Republic of Korea to accept Nepal as a source country for foreign workers as per the Korean government’s regulations of Employment Permit System (EPS).

The government has formed a task force under joint coordination of director general of labor and employment promotion division and the chief of the foreign employment monitoring and supervision department of the Ministry of Transport Management to select and providing training to labourers to Korea.

The government has formed a five-member commission led by former judge of appellate court Madhav Prasad Ojha to probe into the actions taken by the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control formed during the direct rule of the King.

Six more District Soldiers Board (DSB) would be established in Lamjung, Syangja, Gorkha, Banke, Kailali and Khotang districts with an aim to facilitate the retired Indian soldiers and their dependents.

The meeting also decided to release one million rupees each under constituency development programme to the concerned district development committee offices of late member of parliaments Gopal Rai, Krishna Charan Shrestha and Hem Narayan Yadav for building memorials of lawmakers.

The government has also decided to appoint Jamuna Krishna Tamrakar, joint secretary at the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, to the post of chairman of Herbal Production and Refinery Company Limited, while Krishna Chandra Poudel, joint secretary at the same ministry was appointed to the post of chairman of the Timber Corporation Limited management committee.