Kathmandu. Minister for Agriculture, Forest and Environment Gita Chaudhary has issued a 9-point directive for the reform of the Dairy Development Corporation (DDC).

The ministry has been asked to submit the monthly data of milk collection and sale distribution of the last five years and the actual details of income and expenditure within 15 days.

The Ministry has been directed to inform the Ministry within a month after recovering the arrears to be recovered by the Corporation as per the prevailing law and to include all the processes from milk collection, sale and distribution of milk products, billing system, accounting system, property and commodity status in the electronic record within 3 months as per the 100-point agenda of governance reforms approved by the Government of Nepal.

Likewise, directives have been issued to make electronic attendance mandatory for all types of employees and workers working in the corporation and to provide regular and long-term payment only if it is certified by such electronic attendance and to make arrangements to provide only facilities as stipulated by the prevailing law.

Directives have also been issued to update the details of physical assets of the corporation and make a business plan for it, to provide performance details to each employee with a target and to prepare an index of evaluation as per the work description and to assign work responsibilities by giving key performance indicators.

In the directive, the corporation has been asked to prepare ‘Business Process Reengineering’ by documenting the list of works to be done by itself and others, the flow of work and process and send the details of improvement to the Ministry. According to Minister Chaudhary’s Secretariat, the employees including the chief of each distribution project and production center under the Dairy Development Corporation should be given the target of milk collection and sale and distribution of milk products in a way that the corporation keeps in profit.