According to government spokesperson and Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning Prabhat Lama, reducing the number of ministries and offices will save the provincial government's annual operating expenses by Rs. 5 billion.
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The Bagmati Province government has decided to reduce the number of ministries. The provincial government's cabinet meeting held on Tuesday decided to reduce the number of ministries from the current 14 to 8.
At the special initiative of Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniya, the ruling party UML has been 'forced' to reach an agreement and reduced 6 ministries with effect from 9th Shrawan. There had been a dispute between the Congress and UML over the issue of reducing the number of ministries for a long time. The cabinet meeting to reduce the number of ministries was called for 3 pm, but it started about 2 hours and 35 minutes late after the UML took a stand to maintain 9.
The UML ministers were forced to do so after Chief Minister Baniya took a stand to maintain the number of ministries at 8. According to sources, although the ruling parties reached an agreement on giving the vacant Speaker's post in Bagmati Province to the UML, continuing as the Chief Minister, and reducing the number of ministries, the UML tried to create a dispute over the number of ministries at the last minute.
Bagmati Province will have only the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Law and Cooperatives, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, the Ministry of Drinking Water, Energy and Irrigation, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Environment, the Ministry of Health and Social Development, and the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Labor and Transport.
According to government spokesperson and Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning Prabhat Lama, along with the reduction in the number of ministries, it has been decided to remove 50 offices in various districts under the province. 'Currently, there are 198 offices in various districts under the provincial government. Now, 148 will be maintained. For that, a committee has been formed to build an employee management structure.' According to spokesperson Lama, reducing the number of ministries and offices will save the provincial government's annual current expenditure of 5 billion.
