Kathmandu, June 26: Prime Minister and Minister for General Administration Girija Prasad Koirala has said that His Majesty’s Government has already implemented most of the recommendations of the Administrative Reform Commission -2048 and the others will be gradually implemented in order to make the administration more people-oriented, responsible, and effective.
Responding to queries posed by MPs at today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister said the recommendations of the commission have been included in the Civil Service Act 2049 and regulations 2050 and an administrative reform committee and administration reform coordination and follow up committee have been formed for giving continuity to the administrative reforms.
He said as administrative reform is a continuing process stress has been laid by the government to making it result oriented and action oriented, adding that the number of Ministries has been reduced to 21 in order to realise austerity in the administrative structure and the work on preparing the organisational structure of the ministries is in the final phase.
The Prime Minister said he has called for a single federation of civil Employees, teachers and trade unions and for the formulation of regulations by themselves, adding that as the process has been forwarded there will a single federation very soon.
Mr Koirala in answer to another question said HMG has made public and implemented most of the reports of the commissions and it will take time to make others public.
He said the reports of the commissions to be formed from now onwards will be sent to parliament, the reports of commissions formed on revenue leakage and passport misutilisation investigation have been presented at parliament and the report of the Land Reforms Commission headed by Keshav Badal is being adjusted in the technical aspects by experts.
To another question he said the government has given continuity to dialogue and discussion in order to move ahead in an open and liberal manner through understanding with the opposition political parties in order to solve the national problems.
He said as democracy and parliament run through consensus, national consensus can be achieved through dialogue, the government is attempting to resolve problems through dialogue and this is evident from the resolution of the citizenship problem.
The Prime Minister informed that a bill on management of the political parties and their facilities will be tabled this session with the objective of developing democratic culture in the political parties and making economic matters fully transparent and regular.
The government is committed to implementing the report of the revenue leakage investigation committee and the decisions of the parliamentary committees, he said.
It takes time to develop consensus, it is not as easy as making fire with matches, nobody has magic wands, he said adding that attempts have been made towarrds consensus, committees have been constituted from the ruling and opposition parties, we should have patience, we are headed towards consensus and it will materialise, he added.
The Prime Minister said we can reach national consensus on internal issues as well as on foreign affairs and peaceful diplomacy should be adopted in foreign affairs.
CPN-UML MPs seeking answers from the Prime Minister were Yadav Bahadur Rayamajhi, Rajendra Prakash Lohani and Prakash Jwala.