The high level political coordination committee of the ruling coalition set its working guidelines and jurisdiction Thursday appointing CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Neal as its chief.

The meeting of the committee held at parliamentary party office of the CPN (Maoist) in Singha Durbar adopted the guidelines prepared by big three parties with minor amendments.

The committee will immediately look into efforts made towards improving security situation, implementation of the agreements reached with various agitating groups in the past and ongoing negotiation with the Terai armed groups.

The committee will meet again on Friday to chalk out its initial works.

The committee has been formed to coordinate with government to ensure common minimum programmes announced during the formation of the new government are implemented effectively. nepalnews.com ia Dec 04 08