Existing local units – 217
municipalities and 3,117 Village Development Committees – have been dissolved
and the new structure includes 12 sub-metropolitan cities, 241 municipalities
and 462 gaunpalikas (village councils) with altogether 6,553 wards.
The local government has begun
to function according to the new structure from Friday.
Newly appointed Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa unveiled
the Nepal Gazette of the demarcation of the local bodies – metropolis,
sub-metropolis, municipalities and village councils.
“The governance has reached at the doorstep of
the people after six decades. This historic event has marked as an advent of
revolutionary changes as the local government would have more managerial,
executive and judicial powers than earlier,” said DPM Thapa interacting with
the journalists after assuming the post at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and
Local Development (MoFALD).
According to Nepal ’s Constitution 2015, the executive functions of the Village Council and
Municipality shall be exercised in the name of Village executive and Town
executive.
There
will be a judiciary committee and the local executive can formulate necessary
laws as guided by the constitution.
According to the DPM, he was
committed to create capable and well managed local level government with the
implementation of action plan to establish offices and infrastructure for the
new set up, employee management and account management.
Thapa directed the officials of
the Ministry to put their extra efforts in order to make well-managed local
bodies.
“To make the elections happen on
the stipulated time, every official should extend their additional assistance,”
he said.
LBRC Chairman Balananda Poudel
had submitted the report to the erstwhile Minister of Federal Affairs and Local
Development Hit Raj Pandey on January 6, this year.
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