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Reacting to his sacking, Gyewali said he was surprised by the government decision as reconstruction work, particularly the work to distribute the first instalment of the housing aid, was just gathering the pace.
However, the decision was already in the making for some months. When the government on December 29 first asked Gyewali to furnish clarification about his poor performance and delay in reconstruction work, the government was already preparing to relieve him of duties. Concluding that his clarification, submitted on January 4, was not satisfactory, a Cabinet meeting the following day had again asked Gyewali to clarify why he should not be dismissed from the post.
Gyewali, was appointed to head the NRA by then KP Sharma Oli government on December 25, 2015 for five years. He was serving as the executive director of the Town Development Fund.Before Gyewali, then Sushil Koirala government on August 15, 2015—four months after the quake and two months after the international donors’ conference during which over $4 billion was pledged for Nepal’s rebuilding efforts had appointed Pokharel, who was serving as the vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission, as the NRA CEO through an ordinance. But failure to replace the ordinance with a bill had made the NRA invalid and the CEO’s post vacant.
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