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Short, step-by-step guides for reading bills, scrutinising budgets, preparing for committees, weighing policy options and checking sources. Each step cites Nepal’s Constitution or parliamentary rules where it can; examples marked hypothetical are made up for practice.
How to read a billA step-by-step guide to reading a federal bill in Nepal: where to find the official text, what the attached notes tell you, and how to follow it through Parliament. Each procedural step cites the Constitution or the current House of Representatives Rules, 2083. It is a reading aid, not legal advice.About 20 minutesकरिब २० मिनेटBudget scrutiny worksheetA worksheet for following Nepal's federal budget, from the pre-budget debate to the Auditor General's report. It asks you to put a plan, a revised plan and actual spending side by side, and shows what Parliament can do at each stage. Procedural points cite the Constitution and the current House rules; figures come from Ministry of Finance documents.About 45 minutesकरिब ४५ मिनेटPreparing for a parliamentary committeeA before, during and after checklist for anyone working with a committee of Nepal's Federal Parliament: members and their staff, officials asked to appear, and experts or citizen groups invited to give views. It sets out what committees may do under the current House of Representatives Rules, 2083, the National Assembly Rules and the joint rules, and how to follow up.About 30 minutesकरिब ३० मिनेटPolicy options templateSeven questions to work through before backing a policy, a bill or an amendment. Use it to compare at least two options, including keeping things as they are, on the same terms. It does not recommend any policy.About 40 minutesकरिब ४० मिनेटChecking a sourceA practice exercise for checking a claim about Nepal's laws, Parliament or public money before you repeat it. It walks through finding the original document, checking its version, language, units and definitions, and recording exactly where a figure comes from. The worked example uses two official deficit figures for the same budget that are both correct.About 25 minutesकरिब २५ मिनेट