KATHMANDU: The government is set to review the quotas of government employees at 520 Village Development Committees of 12 among the 14 hardest hit districts that are declared crisis-hit zone.

The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development is gearing up to increase quotas for the officials (officer level), engineers, accountants and agricultural and livestock technicians with a view to regulating and making services in the quake-affected Village Development Committees fast and effective by strengthening the existing structures.

The move is also aimed at carrying out reconstruction of the damaged structures and rehabilitating the people displaced by the April 25 earthquake and aftershocks.

Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development Dhan Bahadur Shrestha said, “We have made an agreement, in principle, with the Ministry of General Administration and have received positive response in this regard from the other concerned bodies as well.”

MoFALD is preparing to send officer level VDC secretary, engineer, accountant, and agricultural and livestock service technicians in the Village Development Committees having 1,000 households and above, while in the VDCs with less than 1,000 households, MoFALD is preparing to send Nayab Subba (Non-gazetted first class) level officials as VDC secretary, sub-engineer, assistant accountant and technicians of agriculture and livestock service.

The government plans to bring the officials currently working in the VDCs under the same mechanism, said Joint Secretary Shrestha.