Kathmandu- The government is preparing to enact a law to provide facilities to former distinguished officials.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has started drafting the law after the Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday decided to give in-principle approval to formulate a bill to provide facilities to former distinguished officials.

Although the Supreme Court has given a mandate to determine the service facilities of former distinguished officials only by enacting a law, the government has been providing facilities such as vehicles, fuel and others to former distinguished officials without a law.

Even before this, the government had taken a bill in this regard to the parliament, but it could not be passed. Recently, the government has again initiated the process of enacting a new law to provide facilities to former distinguished officials.

According to an official of the Ministry of Home Affairs, a law is being made to determine the facilities for former presidents, former vice presidents, former prime ministers, former chief justices, former speakers and former presidents of the National Assembly.