Kathmandu, Feb. 1 -- The central cooperatives and poverty alleviation department of the ruling CPN-UML and the National Cooperative Federation of Nepal have presented suggestions to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, urging the government to revise certain provisions of the recently introduced ordinance related to cooperatives.

On Saturday, former minister Khagaraj Adhikari, head of the central cooperatives department of the party, and Om Devi Malla, chair of the National Cooperative Federation, submitted separate memorandums to Prime Minister Oli at his official residence in Baluwatar on Saturday, said the prime minister's secretariat.

The suggestions focused on the need to amend certain provisions in the ordinance that seek to regulate the...