Some services resume as new PM takes charge

Nepal’s vital institutions that were reduced to ashes during the Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests, have resumed services on Sunday.

Two days after being appointed the interim government’s prime minister, Sushila Karki formally assumed her office in Singha Durbar. She announced a payment of a million rupees each to the families of the deceased, while also declaring them martyrs.

During the protests, demonstrators set fire to the Prime Minister’s Office and several other ministries. Karki started her work from one building on the Singha Durbar premises that was spared. After assuming office, she vowed to carry out the responsibilities she had been given and sought support for the same. She suggested that the arson and destruction during the protests could have been premeditated, and said everything will be investigated.

“I feel it was done in a planned way as part of a conspiracy. All acts will be investigated. Nobody involved will be spared,” she said, asking the bureaucracy to work effectively and efficiently.