MPs in home districts for plan selection
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The work of selecting plans for the upcoming fiscal year 2083/84 has begun in Karnali. The provincial government had issued a public notice for the plan proposal in the last Shrawan. According to which, the local levels had submitted a list of possible plans to the district's thematic offices by mid-Manshir.
A district-level project proposal selection recommendation committee has been formed under the coordination of the directly elected senior provincial assembly member to select the plans to be included in the budget. The committee will recommend the names of the plans to the provincial ministries by April 15.
Karnali provincial assembly members have now reached their home districts for the plan selection. The committee will include the head and deputy head of the District Coordination Committee, local level heads and deputy heads, along with other provincial assembly members. The head of the thematic office has been appointed as the member secretary of the committee.
The committee will prioritize, evaluate and analyze the plans submitted by the local levels to the thematic offices. Chetan Kumar Timilsena, spokesperson for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, said that the plans sent by the district-level selection committee will reach all ministries by April 15. “A committee formed under the leadership of the secretary will study the plans received by the ministry and take necessary decisions and send them to the Provincial Planning Commission on the recommendation of the minister,” he said. “The commission will enter the project in the bank and send them to the ministry and those plans will be included in the budget.”
The federal government has not yet sent a ‘ceiling’ to the provincial government for budget preparation. Due to which, the provincial government’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning has started the work of selecting plans without giving a ‘ceiling’ to the ministries, he informed.
Proposals have also been sought from local levels for supplementary and special grant plans, said Timilsena, spokesperson for the ministry. According to him, a monthly notice was published on Falgun 1 for those plans. The ministry has stated that discussions are underway on the plans sent by local levels by April 1.
The government will allocate Rs 50 lakh for road and building infrastructure next year. And for others, a policy has been adopted that plans with a budget of less than 2 million rupees will not be included. According to which, from the current fiscal year, all plans selected by the provincial government will have to be entered into the 'Project Bank', said Leela Prasad Sharma, secretary of the ministry.
