Secretary at
the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction said that the arrears and unsettled
accounts related to ex-Maoist combatant could not be cleared.
Speaking at
a meeting of the Unsettled Accounts Clearance Committee meeting here today, the
secretary Dhan Bahadur Tamang said that the unsettled accounts of the ex-Maoist
combatant and resettlement would be difficult to settle.
The
government had allocated a total of Rs 20 billion for the resettlement and
rehabilitation of ex-UCPN Maoist combatant but the part itself has been
involved in the financial indiscipline, according to the ex-Maoist combatant.
The case has also been filed at the anti-graft watch dog, but it has not moved
forward.
Finance
secretary, who is also the coordinator of the committee, asked the secretaries
not to increase any more unsettled accounts, and settle the old ones. The
Office of the Auditor General has been asking the government to hold the
respective ministers and secretaries responsible for the increasing unsettled
accounts.
"Though
the commitment to settle the accounts is a welcome step, it has to be settled
through practical ways," he said adding that the committee has directed
all the ministries to at least reduce unsettled accounts to half, if not settle
completely.
"Though
the unsettled accounts of the current fiscal year dropped to 13.5 per cent, the
accumulated unsettled accounts have to be settled soon," said energy
minister and a member of settlement committee Umakanta Jha, on the occasion.
Likewise, another
committee member and agriculture minister Tek Bahadur Gharti urged to continue
the momentum of the current pace of settlement.
The
secretaries, on the occasion, sought help of the committee to settle the
unsettled accounts as some of the accounts could not be settled by a single
ministry. "The departments under the ministries are responsible to
increase unsettled accounts," they said, briefing progress of their
respective ministries.
Though,
unsettled accounts always may not mean financial indiscipline, the settlement
of accounts is important according to law and also to be accountable to the
general people, who are the paid tax from their hard earned money.
According to
the latest report, the government has settled almost half to Rs 20.93 billion,
out of the total Rs 45.19 billion unsettled accounts. The settlement is some
46.33 per cent.
The
government had formed a three-member committee to solve the problems of
unsettled accounts led by finance minister. The secretary at the Office of
Prime Minister Krishna Hari Baskota is the member secretary of the committee.
Baskota, on the occasion,
advised to form a committee under every ministry to settle the unsettled
accounts.
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