Kathmandu, March 2

The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development has directed the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, and all sub-metropolitan cities and municipalities to submit progress report on the performance contract earlier signed with them.

An official at the Municipality Planning and Management Sector of the MoFALD said local bodies were told to submit progress report by March 8.

The ministry had concluded performance contract with chief executives of the local bodies in a bid to make them more accountable.

The MoFALD has identified as many as 14 indicators with varying weightage for a total of 250 marks. Local infrastructure development carries weightage marks of 50 followed by good governance, administrative management and control (39), service flow and information technology (20), environment protection and sanitation (18), financial administration and discipline (17), participatory plan (15), gender and social inclusive development (15), monitoring and evaluation (15), internal resource management (12), and social security and personal incident registration (12), land use and management (10), thematic area development (9), livelihood and income generation (5) and miscellaneous (13).

Local bodies that attain 0-40 per cent, 40-50 per cent, 50-60 per cent, 60-80 per cent, 80-90 per cent and more than 90 per cent will be rated as poor, low, average, good, high and excellent respectively.

The MoFALD coordinates with other ministries on cross-cutting issues to assist the local bodies.