Kathmandu, March 11: What if the government commits a blunder by announcing a national holiday on Monday, March 11, for the festival that was held one month ago?
The Buddhist Sherpa community has protested the government for announcing a national holiday for the Gylpo Losar festival, which was observed on February 10. The Sherpa community following the Buddhist religion, observed the festival on February 10, however, the government announced a holiday on March 11.
The mistake was committed by the Nepal Calander Declaring Committee, which develops calendars and also declares national holidays within a year.
Golje Lama Sherpa, central chairman of the Nepal Sherpa Association, issuing a statement on March 8, had protested about the mistake committed by the calendar declaring committee.
He also urged the committee to tally the Bhotchandra calendar while declaring the dates of the festivals.
The 2151st Gyalpo Losar was observed on February 10. Following the calendar developed by the Calender Declaring Committee, the government announced a national holiday today, which has been protested by the Sherpa Buddhist community.
Narayanprasad Bhattarai, spokesman, Home Ministery, said that the holidays were declared one year ago when the calendar was published.
“All the government holidays are decided at the time of publishing the new year’s calendar. During the publication of the calendar, none of the groups had opposed the holiday that was announced for today,” the spokesman said.
People’s News Monitoring Service.
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