Kathmandu, April 14 -- The first Cabinet meeting of Prime Minister Balendra Shah unveiled a '100-point governance reform agenda' for the newly formed government on March 27.

This roadmap for reform covers a range of issues, from drafting legislation in Parliament to administrative improvements in service delivery. Notably, the list includes a commitment to dissolve political party-affiliated trade unions with the goal of making public administration "free from interference."

However, the government has yet to reclaim public land and physical structures previously granted to party-affiliated unions through past Cabinet decisions. Unions associated with the CPN-UML, Nepali Congress, the former Maoist Centre and CPN-Unified Socialist (now ...