Admn Reforms
MINISTER for Information and Communications and General
Administration Ramesh Nath Pandey reiterated the government's commitment to implement the
administrative reform programme to make the administrative machinery transparent and
responsible to the people. Pandey expressed this while addressing the first regular
meeting of the Administration Reforms Committee as the chairman of the committee the other
day. Administration, popularly called as the permanent government is the backbone of any
nation to carry out development and other everyday activities smoothly. In the absence of
an efficient administration equipped with skilled and honest manpower a country cannot
make a desired progress. Nepal's public administration is not free from flaws and
difficulties. Prevalence of rampant corruption, red tapism, over staffing, delay and
presence of the people with fake certificates are some of the major problems facing the
country's administration. Though efforts were made in the past to reform the
administration by forming different committees, the attempts were limited only in the
formation of such committees and receiving the reports, thanks to the country's unstable
politics. If a government happened to implement some of the recommended reform measures,
the consecutive governments would be there to go against such reforms. The cut in the
number of ministries during the premiership of Girija Prasad Koirala and their increase
during the time of Sher Bahadur Deuba are the indications of such odd happenings.
Moreover, each government formed in the last decade
politicised the administration and added the number of ministries only to stick to power
by appointing as many ministers as possible. Consequently, our administration is failing
to impart services in a fair manner. Also our administration lacks adequate women
representatives and participation of indigenous nationalities and oppressed communities.
And the present government seems to be aware of all these negative aspects of the
country's administration and wants to do away with existing anomalies by implementing some
concrete reform measures. Minister Pandey's remarks that proposed reforms in the civil
service would dissuade the prevalence of fake certificates in the administrative services,
remove gender inequality and help increase the participation of indigenous people in the
administration are encouraging in this context.
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