Pokhara, Mar. 29:The National Planning Commission (npc) has organised a seminar concerning periodic district development plan formulation with the objective of bringing clarity to the long-term perspective on plan formulation, allocation of resources and maintaining of coordination between the tenth plan to be introduced after two years and the district development plans.

Participants of the seminar deliberated on acts and rules concerning local self-governance, the process of selection and formulations of plans, the pattern of periodic district development plans, etc as mentioned in working papers and also provided some suggestions.

Sixty persons including DDC chairmen and vice-chairmen, local development officers, planning officers, advisors to the participatory district development programme and local self governance programme, heads of mid-western regional and zonal offices concerned with development and representatives of the Ministry of Local Development attended the seminar.

Npc member Hari Shankar Tripathi, inaugurating the seminar, said that the development endeavours of the districts would benefit when DDCs assign work to domestic and foreign skilled manpower coming through the national development volunteers services, take advantage of their service and also evaluate their performance.

Speaking from the chair, Mustang DDC chairman Nirmal Prasad Gauchan said local bodies have been made autonomous after much effort by the government.

Mayor of Pokhara sub-municipal corporation Krishna Thapa said that emphasis should be laid on the  implementation aspect of plans.

Representatives of the Ministry of Local Development Achyut Koirala, joint secretary of the npc secretariat Arabinda Shrestha and planning director Chin Bahadur Baniya said that attention should be paid to the acts and rules while formulating plans.

A similar seminar held at Nepalgunj was inaugurated by npc member Dr Nirmal Prasad Pandey.