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Kathmandu Wednesday November 21, 2001 Marga 06, 2058.
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Govt set to launch
Three-year Rolling Plan
By Tilak Pokharel
KATHMANDU, Nov 20 – With the failure of
traditional Five-Year Plans, the government has now decided to launch Three-year Rolling
Plan to implement the high-priority projects from the current Fiscal Year.
As many projects planned under the existing
five-year plan did not materialise, the government is all set to introduce the Rolling
Three-year Plan from this fiscal year to accomplish the high-priority projects,
Vice-Chairman of the National Planning Commission (NPC) Prithvi Raj Ligal told The
Kathmandu Post today.
The proposed plan will particularly look into
the projects in four sectors – water resources, construction, housing and
agriculture, according to Ligal. "All the projects will be prioritised in a sectoral
basis," he said.
Officials in the NPC said the need of the
three-year plan was felt after the projects put under the five-year plans were not
properly implemented.
This is the first time that this Three-year
Rolling Plan has been introduced in the country, which is expected to push forward the
prioritised projects.
The NPC is planning to enforce the proposed
plan with close co-ordination with the Finance Ministry, said Ligal. "The Finance
Ministry will be responsible for allocating funds and other required resources for the
proper implementation of the selected projects."
However, he did not rule out the roles and
responsibilities of other concerned ministries on the high-priority projects. He said the
NPC is working on it to implement the project right from the current fiscal year, 2001/02.
"We are working so as to implement the plan from this year, but sectoral budgets will
be allocated from next fiscal year and then the plans will be implemented in the
war-footing."
Joint Secretary at the NPC, Hira Lal Singh
Dongol, said the three-year plan was proposed to achieve anticipated goals by increasing
supervision and monitoring. "The planning will be done this year and the
implementation will start from next fiscal year," Dongol told The Kathmandu Post.
The then government had also made an effort
some five years ago to introduce the three-year plan, but it could not be materialised,
according to Dongol.
"During this three-year plan, special
efforts will be made to properly utilise the lump sum budget allocated to prioritised
projects," Dongol further said.
Other senior official in the NPC, requesting
anonymity, said the initial efforts were made by the Finance Ministry to start the
Three-year Rolling Plan but it never materialised. "Now, the officials are jointly
working on the upcoming Tenth Five Year Plan and the three-year plan," he said.
These types of rolling plans have earlier
been implemented in Australia and some other western countries.
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