Kathmandu. The second meeting of the High-Level Governance Reform Commission chaired by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today discussed the issue of scrapping, merging or handing over the institutions to the state or local levels.

A meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has given the responsibility to the implementation committee of the Commission to come up with a concrete proposal after conducting a detailed study on the bodies recommended for dismissal, merger and transfer on the basis of the recommendations given by the previous commissions and task forces.

Chairman of the Commission, Prime Minister Oli, has directed the implementation committee to bring a proposal with a report within 15 days with the option of bringing positive results in line with the objective. The commission has an implementation committee under the coordination of Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal.

The first meeting of the commission formed under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Oli was held on June 29 to make public services simple, accessible, economical and hassle-free. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel, Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Kumar Chaurasia, Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Bhagwati Neupane are ex-officio members of the commission.

This is the first meeting of the Commission after the addition of Nepali Congress Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka and Nepal Communist Party (UML) Vice-Chairman Ram Bahadur Thapa and three experts from among the political parties.

It was also informed in the meeting that the proposal to revise the work at the federal, provincial and local levels would be approved by the National Coordination Council and submitted to the Council of Ministers as per the recommendation of the Recommendation Committee.

The Commission has mandated to make the physical and human structure, procedures and technology of the service providers service-friendly, to make the decision-making process quick, result-oriented and simple, and to ensure level-level and institutional inter-coordination to remove delays and duplicity in performance.

Similarly, the Commission has the mandate to strengthen cooperation and coordination among the three tiers of government, to improve the existing administrative structure, procedures and laws in a way conducive to federalism, to identify issues related to good governance related acts and laws, and to make the civil service competent, high morale and accountable.