KATHMANDU, AUGUST 4

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal viewed that the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM) should be made 'smart' and a 'Centre of excellence'.

In the meeting of the Problem Solving Committee at the OPMCM on Friday, PM Dahal said, 'It's been seven months since I took up the office of Prime Minister. The performance of this office reflects the progress of the entire country and the government.' Dahal also pointed out the need to wipe out bad repute of OPMCM as the office keeping employees in reserve pool.

He said that the government could not achieve the annual target by working in an ad hoc manner and without finding the root cause behind not achieving the target.

The Head of the Government wondered, 'Don't we formulate plan and programmes in an objective manner or is there a problem in the system of formulating the plans and programmes?' Expressing his qualm over lax implementation of the decisions and directives he issued since his appointment as the PM, Dahal opined that the major question lied whether we would get rid of the practice of making decisions but not implementing them.

The PM shared that performance contract with ministers, chief secretary, secretaries, departmental chiefs and project chiefs and works relating to performance report card will be expedited at the earliest.

Furthermore, he instructed to make arrangements to run the 'Hello Sarkar', a government's initiative tasked with listening to public complaints and grievances, in three shifts. 'It is necessary to develop the Hello Sarkar as a bridge between government and public and centre for good-governance. For this, initiate legal and structural reforms.'

The PM emphasized on continuation of the monitoring and evaluation of the national pride projects for which he directed to create a virtual interactive monitoring calendar which would enable monitoring and evaluating at least two mega projects weekly from the 'Action Room' situated in the OPMCM.

He observed that it was necessary for the OPMCM to play the pivotal role in implementation of the 'Singha Durbar Reform Action-Plan' and to review its progress regularly.

Also, PM Dahal urged the concerned authority to effectively take forward the automatic system and integrated evaluation system that monitor the implementation of the decisions of the Council of Ministers.

He also directed to submit report card of the progress report of every government agency to him a monthly basis.