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PM highlights District Council’s role

Rajbiraj, Apr. 1 (RSS): Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said the Disrict Council is an important body for evaluation of policies and programmes formulated in the past and for development of future programmes at the district level.

In a message to the ninth district council meeting of Saptari district, Prime Minister Deuba expressed confidence that the council will take concrete decisions by evaluating polices and programmes in various sectors of the districts.

MP Renu Kumari Yadav while inaugurating the district council, stressed the need to formulate development plans that help raise the living standards of the poor.

Participants of the district council meeting said the grants being provided to VDCs by the DDC should not be stopped.

The DDC has not issued the grants amounting to more than Rs. 10.7 million to the VDCs citing nonfulfilment of necessary processes by the VDCs.

Sushil Sewa of NC, CPN-UML district secretary Diwakar Devkota, disrict president of RPP Govind Singh and district president of Nepal Sadbhawana Party Jogendra Prasad Yadav, mayor of Rajbiraj Jagarnath Das called for plans that help raise people’s living standard, an ambulance and fire engine to each VDC as well as budget to the VDCs from the DDCs.

Also speaking on the occasion were VDC national federation district president Gangaram Yadav, FNJ Saptari president Murali Prasad Yadav, Raj Parishad Standing Committee Members Uttam Pariyar and Khusilal Mandal, ex-minister Nageswor Prasad Singh, ex-DDC chairman Birbal Biraji also expressed their views.

DDC chairman Dinesh Kumar Yadav presented a budget estimate of Rs. 6.4 billion for the coming five.

Vice chairman Balaram Chaudhari said DDC has been working without any political bias in development works.

On the occasion, MP Yadav honoured 115 years old senior citizen Jaya Krishna Jha, a resident of Itahari Bisampur VDC by wrapping a shawl around him.

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