Surkhet, February 16

The Karnali Province government has approved the People’s Housing Programme Implementation Work Procedure.

A meeting of the Karnali Province Council of Ministers today endorsed the work procedure for implementing the programme.

Although the centre handed over the programme to the province, it had not come into implementation due to lack of work procedure.

The central government had been running this programme for construction of houses for people from Dalit, underprivileged, Muslim, endangered and marginalised communities free of cost. The programme was introduced in the fiscal 2007/08.

Minister of Physical Infrastructure Development Khadka Bahadur Khatri said the uncertainty over the people’s housing programme was over now with the introduction of the work procedure. He added that projects already selected by the central government and some projects selected by the province government would be forwarded as per the work procedure.

The meeting has also given approval to the Ministry of Social Development to table the Bill Related to Mobilisation of Karnali Province Volunteers in the Province Assembly. The ministry has prepared a work procedure for mobilizing 229 volunteers in different areas.

Spokesperson for the Karnali government and Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Bimala KC said the province cabinet meeting has also given approval, in principle, to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning for formulating the Province Public Property Management Guidelines, Multi-year Project Operation Guidelines, Province Monitoring Evaluation Guidelines,  Budget Formulation and Implementation Guidelines and the Bill on Public-Private Partnership, and for amending the Economic Work Procedure Act.