Political leaders and experts maintained that the policy and program fails to speak about how human resources will be mobilized to execute reconstruction work."The policy and program fails to speak anything about the challenges in implementation aspect. There is no package or incentive announced to encourage migrant laborers to stay home so that they can be mobilized in the reconstruction work," said former Nepal Rastra Bank governor Dipendra Bahadur Chhetri.
Chhetri also said that the policy and program fails to explain how the government will mobilize civil servants in the massive reconstruction program. "After all, it is the civil servants who will execute the reconstruction programs. Nothing has been announced to motivate civil servants," he further said.
It's not only the experts, but also political leaders who are not happy with the policy and program.
Opposition party leaders have slammed the document saying it fails to address the issue of new buildings in the present context of reconstruction and rehabilitation of earthquake victims.
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the government's policy and program is 'traditional' and 'formal'. "The policy and program has failed to address the issue of new-buildings in view of the gravity of the current situation," said Dahal while emerging from the Legislature-Parliament meeting on Wednesday.
"I will put forth my formal view after making a thorough study of the document. But the policy and program presented by the government does not give any impression that a new situation is coming. This has failed to address the needs of the country."
Likewise, another Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai argued that the document fails to incorporate any new program. "The policy and program fails to address the need of post-quake Nepal to carry out reconstruction work," he said.
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