KATHMANDU, Jan 5: The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM) has been restructured. The OPMCM underwent major restructuring as announced by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in his address to the nation on December 26 last year.
The restructuring is in line with the announcement to make structural changes to the OPMCM.
As per the revised structure proposal recently approved by the Cabinet, a total of 68 positions including three secretaries and seven joint-secretaries within the OPMCM have been removed.
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Similarly, some branches and divisions of the OPMCM have been merged while a separate division related to information technology (IT) has been established. The separate IT-related division was formed to further support the development of information technology in the country.
PM Dahal's Press Advisor Govinda Acharya shared that the OPMCM and PM's Secretariat have been restructured by cutting various quotas as per PM Dahal's plan to make the OPMCM efficient and functional.
Meanwhile, the PM's Advisor Acharya has said relieving Ganga Dahal, the PM's daughter, who is serving as private secretary to the Prime Minister of the post will be non-cooperation to the Prime Minister and make him unsuccessful. Ganga, a central member of the CPN (Maoist Center), has been working as the Prime Minister's private secretary since the beginning of his term.
The matter has not been raised in the party and the government, and voices from outside to remove her from the Prime Minister's private secretariat keep no meaning, said Acharya.
"Ganga has been a great support to the Prime Minister during his hard term, both as the government head and the party chair, be it during the tragic losses of his son and spouse or throughout his tenure as the Prime Minister. Removing Ganga from her current post of the PM’s private secretary will be non-cooperation to the Prime Minister," he added.
