New regulations issued to streamline development work

Kathmandu, September 24

The government has issued Local Infrastructure Development Partnership (Operating Procedure) Regulations-2019, for selection and prioritisation of development programmes to be carried out throughout the country.

The regulations have identified 14 programmes which will be carried out in each constituency. The programs include irrigation, landslide control, construction and upgradation of roads, water supply, sanitation, conservation of heritage sites, micro hydroelectricity and electrification.

The programmes also include health facilities, support in increase of agricultural productivity, sports infrastructures, orphanage, housing for homeless, infrastructure development of community schools and projects that promote the interest of persons with disabilities.

As per the regulations, there shall be a six-member Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) in each constituency for coordination and facilitation of implementation and management of the programmes to be conducted as per the rules. The committee comprises a member of the House of Representative, elected under the proportional system, a member of the National Assembly, chief and deputy chief of the District Coordination Committee and chairperson or mayor of rural municipality or municipality where the programmes will be implemented.

Functions and duties of the committee include collecting details of projects that may be implemented and solving problems that may surface in the course of implementation of programmes or projects. The regulations prohibit selection and implementation of programmes in a manner to collude with political parties and their sister organisations by sidelining broader interest of people living in the concerned constituency.

There shall be a steering committee led by the PAC coordinator for the purpose of selection and monitoring of programmes. The regulations require the committee to prioritise the infrastructure projects that create labour-based employment, ensure maximum public participation and reduce disaster risk, and send the project details to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Genera Administration, District Treasury Controller Office and the concerned local level by the end of November, each year. A development programme or project shall have cost estimate of minimum five million rupees.

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