Pressure groups are dictating lawmaking

From doctors to teachers to police, powerful lobbies are bending laws to serve their interests.

On July 8, following protests by the Nepal Medical Association, the government struck a deal with the medical doctors to make “necessary revisions” to the Consumer Act. The doctors had launched an agitation, closing all services except emergencies, against Consumer Court’s verdicts to slap penalties on doctors found guilty of gross negligence in treatments that even led to patient deaths.