Kathmandu, Apr. 28
Prime Minister KP
Sharma Oli on Sunday urged the planners and bureaucracy to change the mind set
to have high ambition in development.
“Our mind set is our speed breaker. We hesitate to have high development
and growth ambitions just thinking that what would others say. We must aim high,”
he said while speaking at the full meeting of the National Planning Commission
(NPC) at the Singhadurbar.
PM is also the chairman of the NPC.
Stating that the double digit growth could be higher than 10 per cent,
but most of planners just take it as the target, PM Oli urged them to think and
plan beyond the limit.
According to him, though it seems challenging to meet the target of
double-digit growth rate, the country will have in the next couple of years.
“When we continuously achieve the growth rate of about 7 per cent at the
time when we are in political transition and working to create legal foundation
for the new political structure of the country, we can make an impressive
achievement in the next years,” he said.
He criticised the draft of the 15th Periodic Plan
(2019/20-2024/25) for lacking some highly ambitious projects.
PM Oli said that the increasing land price had made the development
projects dearer and the government was facing problem in implementing large infrastructure
projects as huge amount of money was needed for the land acquisition.
The government had adopted the national motion of ‘Prosperous Nepal:
Happy Nepali’, but it seems that only those are happy who have money,
therefore, the government will work to bring happiness to them who actually
need it, he maintained.
The NPC meeting passed the draft of the 15th Periodic Plan
which will be presented to the Cabinet on Monday.
Vice-Chairman of the NPC Prof. Dr. Pushpa Raj Kandel said that the new
plan had tried to address the need of the people at every corner of the
country.
Meanwhile, PM Oli launched the National Data Profile prepared by the
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), a statistical agency under the NPC.
The National Data Profile is an integrated open data platform that
collets and presents the national, provincial and local data. The data has been
segregated at the ward level as well.
The portal www.nationaldata.gov.np
can have geographical and theme gateway which gives the users a unique
experience in accessing and handling the data.
“It will benefit all the government and other development agencies as
well as the planners in planning and executing development programmes across
the country. The government will have basic information so that it can mobilise
the grant money on the headcount basis,” said CBS Director General Suman Raj
Aryal.
The government in its Policy and Programmes for the current Fiscal Year
2018/19 had said that the development of the country now onwards would be based
on intensive analysis, research and evidence based on data, and a national
statistical base would be created for the same.
The federal, provincial and local governments can feed the data related
to them in the portal.
Aryal said that the capacity-building programmes for the subnational
governments for the use of data portal would be organised within a couple of
weeks.
“This is a great achievement as it will not only increase the access to
crucial data but also support logical programme execution,” he said.
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