Kathmandu, September 30 The parliamentary special committee formed to study clim

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Kathmandu, September 30 The parliamentary special committee formed to study climate change in the Himalayas and the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster is scheduled to hold its first meeting today. The meeting will be held at Singha Durbar and will elect the committee chairperson. Rastriya Swatantra Party lawmaker Ganesh Parajuli has already filed the sole nomination for the chairperson. Lawmaker Mohan Acharya has proposed his candidacy, while Nisha Dangi, Pushparaj Kandel, Ramesh Kumar Malla, Dhruv Rai and Saraswati Lama have supported it. The House of Representatives had formed the 15-member special committee at its meeting on September 21. As Parajuli is the only candidate, he is expected to be declared elected unopposed at today’s meeting. The committee members are Achyutam Lamichhane, Anushka Shrestha, Gangadevi Shrestha, Ganesh Parajuli, Dhananjay Regmi, Dhruvraj Rai, Nisha Dangi, Pushparaj Kandel, Mohan Acharya, Mingmagyabu Sherpa, Ramesh Kumar Malla, Rabindra Patel, Saraswati Lama, Sujata Tamang and Sita Thapaliya. The committee’s terms of reference include studying the impacts of climate change in the Himalayas.