For the purpose of the personal study, Sanjiv Ghimire, Coordinator of the RTI Support Centre at freedom1 Forum (FF) and FF's member and journalist Dharmendra Jha on July 29, 2012 demanded the following information with the Youth and Small Entrepreneur Self-Employment Fund in accordance with Clause 3 of the Right to Information Act: a. About the total amount collected in the Self-Employment Fund by receiving from Nepal government, national and international organizations, any individual and cooperatives. Separate details about the amount the Fund received in different times. b. How is this amount provided, to which banks, commercial firms and cooperatives, and on which dates with what interest rate. Copies of the agreements made with the commercial firms and institutions after providing the amount in the fiscal year 2011/012 and 2010/011. c. Details about progress of the commercial firms and institutions after receiving money from the Fund. What about the amount provided to the institutions which did not invest anywhere? Did they returned that amount and on which date they returned? Detailed information about the amount returned to different dates. d. Who are the unemployed youths or their groups to take loans from the banks of the Fund. Full information about them as their address, occupations, where is the investment area, interest rate, date they take loans from the banks of the Fund. e. What is total reserve of the Fund? What about the deposits and in which banks with what interest rate? Detail information about which level of official in the Fund that decides about depositing in the banks. f. Copies of the annual auditing reports from the inception till date.
Freedom Forum is a prominent non-governmental organization in Nepal dedicated to institutionalizing democracy, protecting and promoting human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression, right to information, promoting audit accountability, open and accountable budget, public finance reforms, citizen engagement in public finance management and citizen participation in audit. Established in February 2005, the organization emerged in response to the political turmoil following Former King Gyanendra’s coup dated February 1, 2005, which imposed severe restrictions on media and democratic rights. A group of media professionals, legal experts, and academics founded Freedom Forum to safeguard Nepal’s hard-earned democratic freedoms during this repressive period.
