Kathmandu, Dec. 17 -- Less than two weeks before submitting the closed lists of candidates for proportional representation election, the government is working to revise the election law to ensure a fair representation of various castes and communities in the House of Representatives.

After an agreement between the government and the Election Commission to review the representation of the respective community based on the population size as per the latest census, a six-member panel was constituted on December 11 for a study.

The panel led by Subash Bhattarai, a joint secretary at the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, has submitted the report to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Its report suggests there have been slight ch...