Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli held a virtual meeting with the Chief Ministers of all seven provinces today regarding service delivery, good governance, overall progress, existing challenges and facilitation by the federal government. Prime Minister Oli had this kind of dialogue with the Chief Ministers for the first time from the 'Action Room' of the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers at Singhdarbar.
In the discussion that lasted for about two and a half hours, Prime Minister Oli said that there was a need to discuss with the Chief Ministers of the provinces individually and assured that they would hold more discussions when the preparation of the budget for the next fiscal year is ready. Prime Minister Oli informed that he will go to the provinces as much as possible and also reach some provincial assemblies to discuss the thoughts of the center and the provinces on nation building and identify the problems and go for the 'action' of implementation. He suggested that in the current age of information and technology, such discussions can be held by the Chief Ministers at the district level and on a project basis.
Prime Minister Oli recalled that when he was the first Prime Minister, he started monitoring and discussing projects under construction from the action room in the office at Singha Durbar and said that the use of this room will be increased. Prime Minister Oli said that to improve the situation in which only 48 percent of students pass the Secondary Education Examination, Class 10 (SEE), he has started conducting additional classes on the main subjects through online means with the help of some youth and informed that 57 thousand students participated in it .
Prime Minister Oli urged the Chief Ministers to make such preparations from this year onwards and emphasized that education should be taken as the basis of development. He said that since they are moving towards Digital Nepal, benefits can be given to the people by using information and technology in other fields including health . In the
dialogue, the Chief Ministers expressed their gratitude for being held in this kind of discussion and informed about the physical and financial progress achieved by their government so far in the current financial year, the existing challenges and solutions to the problems. They need to increase the amount of subsidy with the continuation of the budget in the programs that have multi-year contracts, there should be ease in tree felling and land acquisition for project operations, budget should be increased for disaster management, manpower management, customs evasion should be controlled, road expansion under construction should be completed quickly to develop Gandaki as a tourist center, compensation disputes should be resolved for the construction of east-west railway, expansion of work should be reconsidered, facilitation should be done to increase tourists and income in the province. He suggested that it should be done.
Chief Secretary to the Government Ek Narayan Aryal said that the issues raised by the Chief Ministers will be discussed in the meeting of the Federal Council of Ministers and the meeting of the secretaries of the government. Prime Minister's chief adviser Bishnu Prasad Rimal, economic adviser Yuvraj Khatiwada and high officials participated in the dialogue.
