Timely Directives

The Directives brought out recently by the Prime Minister's office aims at providing better services rendered by the government to the people and to add further momentum to the development activities, as explained by DPM Ram Chandra Poudel at a press meet the other day. The directives are also aimed at improving the living condition of the people by launching various programmes, especially designed to uplift the poor and weaker section of the society. Worth remembering is that the Directives have come to successfully implement the programme 'Justice for the weak and the income for the poor' as said by the Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai about six months ago. Unless the fruits of democracy reach the poor and the downtrodden it would not be reasonable to claim that the country has been able to achieve the desired goal. This can be done only when the bureaucratic offices make people feel there has been improvement in service delivery and this has to be reflected in the conduct of civil servants thereby giving the impression to the general people that they are getting fair deal and the development programmes are being speedily advanced. To uplift the condition of the poor and to alleviate poverty, the government has announced and initiated many programmes like 'B.P with the Poor' and 'Ganesh Man Peace Campaign' to help the poor and ensure peaceful atmosphere in the country. But unfortunately some people in the name of so called 'People's War' have been bent on disturbing the peace and tranquility since the last four years.

The Directive is serious enough in the implementation aspect of the programmes has been manifested in the sense that it will identify the poorest section of the society and launch activities to meet the basic necessities of these people thereby providing the real fruits of development to the needy. More important is the fact that the government has developed monitoring and supervision committee in the districts to make arrangements for proper implementation of the development works at the district level. This will again be monitored and directed by the central level committees headed by no less than the Prime Minister's office and the Prime Minister himself. The past records indicate that the country did not get the desired results of the development programmes mainly because of the weak implementation and monitoring . So it is expected that such type of lackadaisical attitude will not be shown anymore by the bureaucratic sector and the Deputy Prime Minister has rightly stressed that the civil servants and government offices would commit themselves to implement the plans and programmes successfully. It is not that the country lacks resources, manpower, technical expertise for the development activities to kick off what it lacks, the past records has shown, is the sincerity, commitment on the part of the implementing agencies and to some extent partisan politics are responsible for not being able to pursue the development plans and programmes to the desired result. After four years the country has now once again got a strong government in the form of a NC majority government which is seriously committed for the overall development of the country and strengthening of the multi party democracy. So, it can be expected that the present plans and programmes will not face the same fate as in the past as a result of weaknesses in the implementation, supervision and monitoring aspects. Needless to say the main role lie on the bureaucracy and shunning away from partisan politics by different political parties for the sake of development. There is no doubt if this feeling dawns on the concerned people there will be any reason to be dissatisfied.