. Secretary at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Keshav Kumar Sharma, said that bringing the Integrated Procurement Act in Nepal could be a preliminary mistake. In his address to a dialogue on ‘sick contract management’ jointly organized by Society of Infrastructure Journalists and Federation of Contractors’ Association of Nepal in the capital today, Minister Bhattarai said that a single act would not cover all sectors as there are different problems and specialities depending to the sector.

According to him, the main reason why there is still no procurement act in India is that the needs of different sectors are different.TAG_OPEN_p_7 “If the dot pen and the aircraft purchase act are the same, then there will be a problem,” he said, “Therefore, in India, many things are resolved through contract agreements. ”

Secretary Sharma stressed the need to develop a corporate culture in construction companies and suggested that the capacity of the construction companies should be expanded by reducing the number of companies.TAG_OPEN_p_6 He said that the sickness in the contract process has increased in recent period due to COVID-19 and other reasons.

He also suggested that the cost of the project should be compulsorily included in the estimation of the cost of the project.TAG_OPEN_p_5 He said that addressing the demands of the locals would increase the cost and this would make the contractors sick.

According to him, the contractors will get justice if the contract is scrapped arbitrarily, and the contractors need not panic as only two billion rupees worth of contracts have been broken so far.TAG_OPEN_p_4