Making the guidelines public, the Naya Shakti (new force) said that it will accept donation but will not provide any special facility, privilege and rights to the donors. As per the guidelines, the would-be party will not accept more than Rs 50,000 per year from an individual donor and more than Rs 2 million per year from an institution, firm or company.
The Naya Shakti has also made it clear that it will not accept donations from foreigners, incumbent civil servants and staffers of the institutions which are dependent on government grants or have 51 percent of shares of the government. The Bhattarai-led force has stated that it will also not accept donations from black-listed borrowers and contractors as well as from individuals who are convicted or being investigated on corruption charges. It will also reject donations from any individual convicted of criminal offense.
Likewise, the Naya Shakti has announced to reject donations from the firms, institutions or companies, which are registered in foreign lands, black-listed as borrowers or contractors as well as which have 51 percent of share of foreign governments or have religious and communal goals.
According to Naya Shakti campaigner Rameshwar Khanal, they will accept donations of more than Rs 10,000 only through checks and will run the donation weeks twice in a year. They have also claimed that the list of donors would be published on their website every six months with all details.
However, he said that the names of those donors, who want anonymity due to security reasons, will not be published on the website but will be provided to the concerned authorities or agencies as per the law.
Meanwhile, the recent meeting of the secretariat of Naya Shakti has decided to launch different political and social campaigns like 'green Kathmandu, clean Kathmandu', 'zero tolerance against violence against women', 'promotion of Nepali products' and 'harmony campaign for national and social unity'. Naya Shakti has decided to establish help desks at district level to make government offices public friendly and less corrupt.
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