Friday, December 6, 2019

Bureaucracy posing challenge to federalism: NCP chair Dahal

The senior leader has accused the bureaucracy for not supporting the government and posing challenge to federalism.
Addressing Sudurpaschim Financial Summit in Dhangadi today, Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair Puspa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said that the bureaucracy has been holding the development of Nepal back.
The civil servants, from the old political system, are not used to expediting the development process and holding the economic growth of the country back, he said, adding that the new government following the political change in the country should have sacked them. “We should have bid farewell to the employees – who had worked in the old political system – and hired fresh manpower.”
The government failed to usher in change due to the civil servants with old mind sets,” Dahal added.
Accusing the civil servants of not cooperating with the political leadership for the implementation of federalism, he said that bureaucrats are corrupting leaders’ mindset on various pretexts. “The domination of bureaucracy in the issues of nation building, after the second people’s movement had led to the loss of accomplishments achieved from political struggle,” Dahal said, charging the civil servants for failing to get rid of centralised and unitary mindset, though he did not mention the centralised mindset of the politicians themselves.
Sudurpaschim Financial Summit – the first of such kind of summit in province – the participants discussed on role of financial and non financial institutions in the economic development of the Sudurpaschim province. The first session – moderated by former vice chair of National Planning Commission (NPC) member Min Bahadur Shrestha – witnessed the participation of commercial banks, development banks, finance companies and central bank representatives, whereas the second session – moderated by former vice chair of NPC Dr Swarnim Wagle – witnessed cooperatives, life and non-life insurance companies, Insurance Board and media representatives. They discussed various opportunities and challenges of the Sudurpaschim province, and its way forward. Karobar Editor Kuber Chalise, on the occasion, suggested the province to include financial literacy in the course books of all the local levels in the province.
Concluding the Sudurpaschim Financial Summit, finance minister of the province Jhapat Bohora brought out the Dhangadi Declaration. The declaration reads that the provincial government will encourage and support the local levels in the province to include financial literacy in the school course.

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