Chief Minister Surendra Raj Pandey's statement that although the strategy of keeping schemes smaller than 30 lakhs is not his own, when the staff (Secretary) politicizes, the plans are divided into budgets.
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The Chief Minister of Gandaki Province, Surendra Raj Pandey, while bringing the budget of the previous financial year, responded that the provincial government would not include the plan in pieces. This stance of his remained even when the budget of the current financial year was brought. However, they could not implement it in the budget as promised. Budget also includes piecemeal plans. His plan is not to deal with small provinces for road projects worth 30 lakhs, irrigation and water supply projects for less than 10 lakhs. Plans up to one/one and a half lakh got a place in the budget.
Chief Minister Pandey accused the secretary of playing politics while bringing the budget. "As the Chief Minister, I have to answer it myself," he said, "There was cheating in the plan." The secretary did politics. He expressed his anger towards the former secretary saying that the secretary interfered in the budget. The Chief Minister said that the Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport Arrangement Shankar Pandit and the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Irrigation and Water Supply Ganesh Wasti were targeting the then political infrastructure and the plan was more inclusive.
Chief Minister Pandey said that the government is not able to bring the budget as per the plan while saying that the mayor is running for politics. Chief Minister Pandey, who is also the chairman of the meeting, while addressing the 10th meeting of the provincial development problem solution committee held in Pokhara on Friday, advised the secretary not to do politics in the coming days.
"We do politics, secretaries don't do it," Chief Minister Pandey said, "When you do politics, the plan is cheating." There was a plan in the province. There is a problem in the implementation of all three schemes now.' He said that plans of thousands/millions will be addressed from the local level and small schemes cannot be covered from the province. "It's one thing to bend, it's another thing to bend," he reiterated, "We bent to a piecemeal plan".
Navraj Ojha, president of Gandaki Province and head of Rupa Rural Municipality of Kaski, satirized that the provincial government has put in place a piecemeal plan. Stating that small schemes will be addressed from the municipality, Chairman Ojha suggested the Chief Minister to set the ceiling of the scheme from the meeting of the committee. If the province has to keep a small plan, we will keep it. We will support the province," he said. Even in the previous meeting, even though it was decided not to have a piecemeal plan, he said that there was no response, and he demanded to set the ceiling.
Agreeing with Ojha's statement, Tanahun's Byas Nagar Pramukh Vaikunth Neupane argued that the "blue coat" is dominant in bringing the budget. He said, ``It was said that the blue coat was used during the budget, yes. He said that there is no condition to implement the files of small plans. Chief Minister Pandey said that despite the construction of Anpapeepal Hospital in Gorkha and Burtiwang Hospital in Baglung, there is a problem in operation due to lack of budget. Stating that there is a problem when the federal government does not support, he said that it cannot be operated with 12 million rupees allocated from the state. "It was said that the budget would come from the union, but it did not," he added.
He said that the work of classifying the road is going on and the plan bank is being prepared for operation. He said that in the first exercise, 100 percent planning will not be successful from the bank, he said that the tendency to work from the system is better. Mayor Neupane of Byas Nagar sarcastically said that the budget can be introduced from the secretary rather than from the minister. Finance Minister Takaraj Gurung said that the budget has come outside of the government's priorities. In the
meeting, Chief Minister Pandey said that the problems of the state will not be addressed even by the National Problem Solving Committee. "I didn't stop talking because there are no speeches," he said, "in every meeting, frustration is increasing." The member and the head of the municipality complained about the plan and program. The secretaries said that the plans handed over from the central government to the provinces have not been implemented. Jeevnath Paudel, Secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment, said that although a division has been established to work in the field of climate change in the province, it has not yet been addressed, and the meeting should decide and assign responsibilities.
In the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the State Policy and Planning Commission Krishnachandra Devkota approved the proposal and the secretaries of the Minister, Municipality, Rural Municipality and Ministry participated. In the meeting, there was a discussion about the revenue collected from the transport sector should be brought to the account of the province. Decisions such as that the progress of the project can be seen from the PLMBIS from the province, data collection should be through a unified system, conditional and supplementary budget should be given to the priority plans of the provinces and municipalities, etc. The meeting has decided to increase the share of the equalization grant received from the federal government and demand that the provincial government be given the right to select projects by allocating a lump sum budget and determining national goals and priority areas for conditional grants.
The meeting has also demanded to appoint a management officer of the protected watershed area of the Phewa Lake to carry out the development and construction work of Phewa Lake and beautification on a regular basis. The meeting also addressed the issue that the legal basis should be set so that the procurement process of medicines included in the health insurance program is done through a multi-year one-door system . It has been decided that the province will request the union for the necessary budget allocation to manage the international wetlands under the jurisdiction of the Nepal government (listed in the Ramsar list) through the provincial government agencies. In the
meeting, it was mentioned that there was no clear arrangement of the state-wise description, blueprint and target of irrigation . The government of Nepal will be requested to include the provincial master plan as well. Due to the lack of scientific standards for rivers and streams, there have been technical complications in the implementation of river control programs.
The right to transfer the allocated budget towards supplementary grants should be given to the provincial government, the budget should be arranged by the union until the project is completed, the documents within the scope of the Transport Management Office (Nawalparasi Bardghat Susta East) are currently in the Transport Management Office, Butwal, Rupandehi, so the decision to request for facilitation for the transfer of documents The vice president of the commission, Devkota, also informed about the meeting.
