Reports on reducing government expenditure have been pending in Singha Durbar for the past six years, will Karki government pay attention to maintaining 15 ministries?
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. The tax paid by the people was wasted, not where it should have been utilized, and the tax paid by the people was wasted by the leaders. The government has also set up commissions at different times to reduce it. No matter how many commissions were formed and no matter how many reports such commissions submitted, no government paid attention to their implementation.
Committee was formed to suggest what improvements could be made in the existing public expenditure and expenditure management system to make public expenditure effective and result-oriented. Measures were studied to control the rising current expenditure and to change the organizational structure of the government.
Everyone is interested in how to make the annual grants and social protection programs distributed by the government effective and how to make public services effective and efficient.TAG_OPEN_div_124 It’s also a topic that’s always been discussed.
What should be the public spending and finance system? How can the administration be improved? Various committees have suggested how to work with fewer ministries, fewer departments and fewer offices. All these reports are limited to Singha Durbar. None of them have been implemented. No previous government has implemented the report of 2 studies. The Public Expenditure Review Commission was formed under the leadership of Dr Dilliraj Khanal in 2075 BS and the High Level Administration Reforms Implementation and Monitoring Committee was formed under the chairmanship of Kashiraj Dahal in 2076 BS. The committee had submitted its report to the then KP Oli-led government in January 2076. The report has not been implemented.
Now a new government has been formed after the movement organized by Genji to protest against corruption and misgovernance. At the same time, discussions have started about reducing the number of ministries and departments. The Zenji Movement has vandalized and torched the main building of Singha Durbar, the country’s main administrative center, and the ministries of finance, energy, and education. Now, former Chief Justice Sushila Karki has become the Prime Minister for the sake of holding elections.
Earlier, there were 21 ministries.TAG_OPEN_div_118 The Khanal Commission formed in 2075 BS and the monitoring committee formed in 2076 BS have recommended the number of ministries and departments of the NRNA. The suggestion also includes how many departments and boards there should be. None of the governments heeded the suggestion. The reason for not following the advice is to employ your people, to ride in the subordinate offices, to ride the car to the neighbors.
It is easier to recruit relatives and cadres when there are many ministries and departments under it. According to the ministry, even when there are departments and boards, they appoint their own cadres or middlemen and take commission. There has been a long-standing discussion about stopping it. The previous governments did not even want to stop it. They didn’t even bring a budget to stop it. Experts argue that if the Karki-led government wants, it can reduce the government’s unnecessary expenditure and show the way for administrative reform.
Which commission or committee suggested what?
The Khanal Commission had recommended to reduce the number of ministries to 16 by merging the ministries that perform similar functions.TAG_OPEN_div_112
Since most of the functions of the Ministry of Water Supply have been transferred to the provincial and local levels, it has been proposed to keep the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources, Irrigation and Water Supply as a separate Ministry doing similar work.TAG_OPEN_div_111
The current Ministry of Urban Development has been recommended to be merged with the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure, Urban Development and Transport Management in the same ministry.
The proposal has been made to form the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Youth and Sports without keeping the existing Ministry of Youth and Sports separate. It has been proposed to form the existing Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.
Among the existing Ministry TAG_OPEN_div_105 of Federal Affairs and General Administration, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs would be merged with the Ministry of Law, Justice, Federal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of General Administration would be placed as the Department of Personnel Management under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers ।
} The ministry has pointed out the need to have 3-5 divisions according to the workload of the ministry, and generally not to have more than one secretary in a ministry depending on the workload. The ministry having three divisions has 62 employees, the ministries having four divisions have 75 and the ministries having five divisions have only 88 employees.
The report states that the work will be effective if the Ministry formulates, monitors and evaluates the policies and plans, and clarifies the division of work to be implemented by the Department as the anomalies and anomalies in the planning, implementation and monitoring by the same body are also covered.
It is the function of the Department to provide necessary information and advice to the Ministry for the formulation of the development program implementation, plan and policy for the development of expertise in its field of federalism. In the past, the report of Organization and Management Survey Committee had proposed to have 57 departments under the association. The report states that it would be appropriate to keep only 35 departments in the emergency sector in the context of the number of ministries reviewed and 16 proposed departments.
However, no department has been proposed in the Ministry of Law, Justice, Federal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs.TAG_OPEN_div_97 There will be 6 departments in the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, while one department each is in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Women, Children and Social Security. Depending on the workload of the departments, it would be appropriate to have 3-5 divisions within the department. One Director General and Deputy Director General, 1 Under Secretary, 2 Officers, 1 NSW in each Directorate. It is recommended to hire 1 computer operator and 1 office assistant.
} It has been suggested to create vacancies suitable for taking vehicle drivers and office assistant services on contract. It has been recommended to have 5 directorates in departments with high workload and complexity. It would be appropriate to have 4 directorates in the middle level departments and 3 directorates in the general level departments.
A total of 1,410 employees have been proposed in 35 departments. Around 3,806 posts were recommended in 57 departments under the NRNA in the past, but only 1,410 posts were required while the remaining 2,396 posts are likely to be reduced. This is about 63 percent less than the number of departments recommended in the past.
Unnecessary offices at the federal level should be handed over to the state and local level as per the spirit of federalism. The report prepared by the Organization and Management Survey Committee prepared by the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has analyzed the office structure and positions in the federal government and the required posts for the same. Similarly, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has proposed to set up an office each in each province to function through the same office.
The former offices under the Ministry of Finance will remain the same, but in the changed context, appropriate steps should be taken to form a service or cluster by conducting an organization and management survey of the workload of the Treasury and Financial Comptroller Offices (Kolenika). The offices of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources, Irrigation and Water Supply and the Ministry of Law, Justice, Federal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs are not in the province level. A proposal has been made to set up an office in each province under the Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives for import-export of food grains, and quarantine of fruits, vegetables and animals.
There are District Administration Offices, Immigration Offices and Prison Offices under the Ministry of Home Affairs, so it seems that these offices should be considered as small branches under the District Administration Office. This will save more manpower and resources.
Similarly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure, Ministry of Urban Development and Transport Management and Ministry of Women, Children and Social Security should not have any structures at the provincial and local levels.TAG_OPEN_div_85
{{TAG_OPEN_div_83} It would be appropriate to hand over the division and subdivision forest office under the National Park, Wildlife Reserve, Conservation Area and Watershed Area Union to the Ministry of Forest and Environment. The committee has also suggested that the erstwhile District Post Offices should be allowed to perform their duties from the District Treasury and Account Comptroller Office. Similarly, it has been suggested that the present system of carrying out this work by the Cooperative should be continued in the districts where there was no revenue office in the past.
This commission has suggested to keep 16 ministries including the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. The government has recommended the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Energy, Water Resources, Irrigation and Water Supply, Ministry of Law, Justice, Federal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure, Urban Development and Transport Ministry ।
Similarly, the Ministry of Forest and Environment, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Security, Ministry of Education, Communications, Science and Technology, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Ministry of Health and Population and Ministry of Defence have been recommended as the Ministry of Forests and Environment.TAG_OPEN_div_79 This suggestion has not been implemented.
A year after the Khanal Commission submitted its report to the government, the government formed a high-level Administrative Reforms Implementation and Monitoring Committee.TAG_OPEN_div_77 The committee submitted its report to the government in January 2076 for implementation. The committee had suggested the establishment of 15 ministries. The committee has not only allocated the scope of work of the ministry but also the ministry. It will house the office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. It’s. The areas of work were general directive, control and operation of governance, secretariat of the Council of Ministers, human resource management and federal affairs.
The Ministry of Finance and Planning was the Ministry of Finance and Planning and its jurisdiction was Finance, Policy and Planning. The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies was under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies.
TAG_OPEN_div_73 The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs was the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and its jurisdiction was only Acts, Rules, Laws and Parliamentary Affairs. The Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives is under the jurisdiction of Land Management, Agriculture, Livestock, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.
was the Ministry of Home Affairs and its jurisdiction was Peace, Security and Conflict Management. The Ministry of Water Resources and Energy is under the jurisdiction of Irrigation, Energy (including renewable energy), Water Supply and Sanitation, and Water-induced disaster control.
The jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Forests and Environment and its jurisdiction was Forest, Environment, Soil Conservation, Water Resources.TAG_OPEN_div_69 The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport has the jurisdiction of Ministry of Road, Transport, Urban Development and Housing, Women, Children, Labour, Employment and Social Security.
Similarly, the Ministry of Defense will have the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, Education, Science and Communications and the scope of work of the Ministry of Education, Science, Communication and Information Technology.TAG_OPEN_div_67
Similarly, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Civil Aviation, Youth and Sports will be the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Civil Aviation, Youth and Sports and its jurisdiction will be Culture,
TAG_CLOSE_div_65 Tourism, Civil Aviation, Youth and Sports.TAG_OPEN_div_65
TAG_OPEN_div_64 The Ministry of Health and Population was the Ministry of Health and Population. This report was also hidden by the previous government. The study has also suggested that if this could be implemented, the government’s expenditure would be reduced.
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