KATHMANDU, AUG 12 -
The Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC), led by Rukma Shumsher Rana, made the best use of the absence of his rival faction led by Dhurba Bahadur Pradhan by holding a general assembly of the NOC on Saturday.
The Pradhan led committee, which is currently in London for the Olympics, have the backing of the International Olympic Committee, but the Rana-led body has the blessings from the National Sports Council with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling — recognising it as only legal Olympic entity in Nepal — coming as further boost.
At its first general assembly on Saturday, the Rana-led committee approved expenditure amounting to Rs 518,000 made in the last three years starting from October 2010, despite being inactive in that period. Purushottam Shrestha, the committee’s treasurer, presented a report stating that Rs 158,000 was spent on various subtitles relating to legal procedures in the Supreme Court.
The assembly also requested the NSC to recommend the Ministry for Youth and Sports for handover of properties of the Olympic Committee, including the Olympic building at Satdobato, to the Rana-led committee.
Rana said the committee would request the IOC and other sports bodies for international recognition. He then made a plea to the NSC to reinstate the seven sports associations dissolved by the Pradhan-led committee. He even vowed to announce an election date of the seven associations in the next 24 hours if they were restored.
Rana had also led the NOC before Pradhan who served as a General Secretary under his regime before 2007.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/08/12/sports/rana-holds-noc-general-assembly/358633/
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