The meeting of council of ministers on Tuesday has decided to annul three controversial ordinances promulgated by the erstwhile royal government.

Talking to reporters at the Prime Minister’s official residence after the cabinet meeting this evening, Minister for Land Reforms and Management Prabhu Narayan Chaudhari said the government had decided to scrap or review all the ordinances issues by the 15-month-long royal regime.

The state-run Nepal Television said the government has decided to annul ordinance to amend media related laws, ordinance related to non-governmental organisations and ordinance related to local administration. It said the council of ministers has also amended the Labor ordinance.

Details were not immediately available.

The royal government had issued the ordinance amending half a dozen media related laws banning broadcast of news over FM radio stations and raising license fee of the FM radio stations, among others.

The ordinance related to the NGOs had incorporated the controversial code of conduct for NGOs while the local administration ordinance had made provisions for the appointment of zonal administrators.