NC govt for managing local needs

Kathmandu, Nov. 9 (RSS):  The local body financial commission presented its report to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home and Local Development Ram Chandra Paudel today.

After accepting the report, Deputy Prime Minister Paudel said the Nepali Congress government has laid stress on managing local needs by ensuring the local people’s participation through decentralization and is moving ahead for strengthening the nation and democracy.

Giving assurances that good points of the report will be implemented after the study of the report, Mr Paudel asserted that the government will never lag behind in streamlining administrative and management aspects of the local bodies.

Convenor of the commission and member of the National Planning Commission Dr Shankar Sharma hoped that the report which has been prepared with utmost seriousness by involving experts from the local to central levels will be very useful for the government.

The report accommodates suggestions about the budgets to be devised by the centre and local bodies, auditing, grants, responsibilities, etc, Mr Sharma said, adding that if the report is fully implemented, it will help expedite development and construction works.

President of the DDC Federation Krishna Prasad Sapkota also expressed his views on the occasion.

The 10-member commission comprising secretaries of different ministries and DDC chairmen was formed by the cabinet meeting on Magh 24, 2056.

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