Kathmandu, Dec. 4 -- The Poverty Alleviation Fund, which the government had earlier decided to scrap, is seeking a new role in the environment sector by applying for funds under "Green Climate Fund" from the Finance Ministry.

After the community organisations promoted by the Fund were handed over to local governments in 2017, the agency formed to reduce extreme poverty through targeted programmes has been rendered jobless. There are around 32,000 such organisations mobilising over Rs 19 billion.

As per a Cabinet decision taken on November 11, 2018, the PAF Act should have been scrapped by mid-December that year, which would have meant dissolution of the Fund.

But according to officials, the law was not scrapped and the institutions exi...