If the federal government gives the right, we will transform the province in 5 years: Chetnarayan Acharya, Chief Minister, Lumbini Province
Experts have emphasized on the need to move forward by resolving the dissatisfaction between the union and the state through effective coordination. According to them, the dissatisfaction between the union and the state should be resolved together regarding the legal and practical deficiencies seen during the implementation of federalism.
Kantipur Media Group organized in Bhairahawa on Wednesday, the fourth session of the interaction on 'Lumbini's strength', in the 'Economics and Politics in Instability' session, Home Minister Ramesh Lakhtar promised to make necessary laws for the province. Chief Minister of Lumbini Province, Chetanath Acharya, complained that he did not get the expected support from the union to make the necessary laws. Addressing his complaint, the Home Minister said that the state will make a law.
Chief Minister Acharya says that since the customs and immigration will be looked after by the union government, the state will only make suggestions. "The international airport is not under the provincial government, we cannot work on it even if we want," he said. "If the federal government gives all the rights, we will transform the province in 5 years." He said, "The returns from that could not be good," he said. "In the past, it was Lumbini province that won the first place for three consecutive years, and Lumbini spent 99.9 percent of the capital," said Acharya. He said that even though the state government is not doing its job, the state-run scheme is going on in every village.
While it is said that the association will focus only on the proud projects, and the locals will only implement small projects, the province has done the medium projects. "During seven years, the province has constructed 15,000 kilometers of roads," he said, "We have constructed 2,200 kilometers of tarred roads, 400 kilometers of road slopes, 1,155 suspension bridges, and more than 200 concrete bridges."
Former president of the Federation of Nepalese Industries and Commerce Bhavani Rana said that it is difficult for businessmen to operate casinos in the Indian border area. "Once it was said that a distance of 5 kilometers is needed to operate a casino, all businesses collapsed," she said, "There should be a stable policy to operate a casino at zero kilometers or one kilometer." He says that the government's policy should not be targeted at any one businessman and should come in the long term.
The home minister writer claims that the country is not on the gray list because of the government led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. "I am not trying to blame others, we are in the government continuously," he said, "Grey list, corruption matters." We have made laws. But there is a big challenge in implementation. He also told that some laws have not been implemented in the province.
Since the international airport has been built in Bhairahawa, now everyone should be united in the issue of regular operation. "There are some problems with immigration and security, they need to be fixed," he said. "Investments made by the private sector should not be allowed to die," he said.
Rana said that due to the wait-and-see situation, there has been disappointment in the private sector. "Only the private sector invests with all its resources, lately there has been a situation where no one is able to complete any work," she said.
The government made up of two major parties brought an ordinance but it was not implemented, she said. He said that the implementation of the Acts, Laws and Policies that came from the Ordinance has also been questioned. She said that since decentralization of power and development cannot be implemented, businessmen are in a position to invest or not. "Business is also operating at 30 to 40 percent capacity, the cost of doing business is expensive," she said, "If the environment is created, not only internal, but also external investment will be easy."
