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Kathmandu Wednesday January 09, 2002 Paush 25, 2058.
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Decentralization monitoring body
meets
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 8 :The third meeting of the High
Level Decentralization Monitoring Committee (HLDMC) today decided that its working
committee will prepare bi-monthly progress report on decentralization regularly and will
submit it to the Prime Minister’s Office.
According to a press release issued here today from
the Ministry of Local Development, the meeting was held by Decentralization Implementation
and Monitoring Committee under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deauba at
Singh Durbar.
The meeting also decided that a work schedule
concerning the works to be handed over by the ministries to the local bodies in accordance
with the Local Self-Governance Act-2055 B.S. be prepared within the current fiscal year
and implemented from the forthcoming fiscal year.
Also the meeting decided to deposit the working
charts of responsibility to the related ministries of the local bodies this year and start
working from the coming fiscal year, states the release.
While giving the working chart from central level
to other local bodies (VDC, Municipality, DDC) the budget, officials’ working
responsibility and the capacity development of local bodies should be clearly mentioned.
The meeting has also decided to implement primary education, health, postal and
agriculture and the field related to animal health within this fiscal year.
Addressing the function, Prime Minister Deauba
directed the units concerned to carry out the responsibilities being given to them within
the fixed time, and to hand over education, health, agricultural extension (including
livestock services), postal and infrastructure development works to the local bodies
within the current fiscal year, states the release.
Vice-chairman of the Decentralisation
Implementation and Monitoring Committee and Minister for Home and Local Development Khum
Bahadur Khadka said that His Majesty’s Government is working actively to implement
all the commitments being made for decentralisation.
Khadka said that the concerned ministry should take
steps to amend the laws, which are contradictory with the Local Self-Governance Act in
order to make the local bodies more efficient and effective, the release states.
Finance Minister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat said that the
local bodies have been given the responsibilities of primary education, primary health and
agriculture from this year.
In the meeting ministers, parliamentarians, members
of National Planning Commission, secretaries of HMG and the local body officials were
present, the release adds.
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