Annual Progress Review
Kathmandu, July 12
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said on Friday that the culture of
performing 60 per cent job and evaluating the whole should be stopped.
“The government will not tolerate any ‘if’s and ‘but’s in terms of
development implementation. Monitoring of development programmes will be made
more effective and result-oriented,” he said while speaking at the annual
assessment of the current fiscal year 2018/19 programmes.
According to him, this year has witnessed governance reforms, rule of
law and good governance, and foundation for development and construction has
been set. “The economic growth rate has improved significantly, therefore, we
must learn from the past mistakes and work by creating a timetable,” he said.
PM Oli said that the monitoring system recently developed by the
government would help in expediting the development work and expressed hope
that the national pride projects would abandon the slow motion and embark on
the track of rapid progress.
The government announced the budget of the current fiscal year about 45
days ago, but the situation has remained the same, working at the end of the
fiscal year. He directed the ministers and secretaries to be more serious in
implementing the development projects in time.
“We will not tolerate dillydallying in implementing the development
projects. Democracy should be for development and facilitating people but not
for the use of your discretionary powers,” he said.
PM Oli pointed towards the poor coordination among the ministries and
asked them to end the tendency to blame other agencies and support in every
project that need their concerns.
He expressed his concerns over the contradiction of the opinion between
the ministers and high government officials. “First, get all the details, know
the reality then only express your opinion,” he said while directing the
ministers to find out the level of the responsibility of the civil servants.
The PM also asked the officials to be economic in government works. He
said the government would tighten the policy in this regard.
He said that the corrupt officials wouldn’t be spared and directed the
high government officials to inform all staff that everyone was being monitored
and the guilty could be arrested any time.
“We have confidence on all, but they will also be monitored,” said PM
Oli.
He said that the police must be more alert and active to discourage the
activities against the internal peace. He also said that the conspiracy being
hatched against the tourism sector development should be counter-attacked.
Road expansion 2280 km
About 195 MW electricity has been added to the national grid this year
and the total installed electricity capacity has reached 1,325 MW. Similarly,
the length of transmission line has reached 4195 km with 757 km transmission
line – 66 KV or above – constructed this year.
The country added 915 km black-topped road, 1,050 km gravel road, 315
km earthen road and 243 bridges in the current fiscal year and the Detailed
Project Report of 421 km railway is completed. The Ministry of Physical
Infrastructure and Transport said that the Jayanagar-Janakpur-Kurtha (35km)
railway would come into operation by Dashain this year.
Pre-feasibility study of Raxaul-Kathmandu (135km) and
Kathmandu-Rasuwagadhi (72km) railway is prepared.
Likewise, goat import has decreased by 46.9 per cent as compared to the
last fiscal year. Construction of the landfill site at Banchara Danda has been
started. About 99.5 per cent population has access to basic sanitation
facilities and the country would be declared open defecation free within the
first three months of the next fiscal.
New 100 tourism destination were identified which will be developed by
the respective local governments.
Gautam Buddha International Airport has achieved 73 per cent progress
and 3 km long and 60 metre wide runway and apron construction is completed. Pokhara
International Airport has witnessed 42 per cent progress.
The government wants to develop any one location among Panchkhal,
Nuwakot and Rasuwa as the cross-border economic zone and a Chinese team has
recently concluded the field observation. Tibet Foil Construction Group has
started the construction of dry port at Timure of Rasuwa.
Tatopani border point has come into operation from last month.
Likewise, Motihari-Raxaul-Amlekhgunj petroleum pipeline construction is
completed.
The government has created self-employment for 11,879 from Rs. 1.46
billion investment. It has integrated 39,533 civil servants at federal level,
13,790 in provinces and 31,708 in local level and 11,781 in local bodies.
The country signed Transit Transport Protocol with China and it came
into implementation, and Trans-Himalayan Multidimensional Connectivity Network
and Nepal-China Cross-Border Railway Line projects were included in Belt and
Road Initiatives. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on energy trade was
signed with Bangladesh.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 13 July 2019. 
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