A High-Level Administration Reform Monitoring Committee has said that the committee will formulate the transitional plan by the end of December to continue the government's administrative work in the new governance system.
Transforming the existing unitary administrative structures to suit a federal setup is a major challenge in the post constitution promulgation scenario as many existing administrative institutions are likely to be dismantled and new institutional arrangements are going to be needed as envisioned by the new constitution.
"We have already started deliberations with all ministries and other government bodies for formulating the plan. Some ministries have already submitted their suggestions and others are in the process of submitting. We will complete all preparations and formulate a transitional plan by December-end," Committee chairman Kashi Raj Dahal said.
The committee held a meeting with representatives of all the ministries and other government agencies on Thursday and sought suggestions for preparing the plan.
At the meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintained that it will need only a limited number of administrative institutions at the provincial level as many of its activities have to be carried out by the center. Likewise, bodies like the Public Service Commission and the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority discussed the types of provincial administrative institutions required at the federal and provincial levels.
"We also discussed how many existing administrative institutions have to be dismantled and new institutions have to be set up. Likewise, they also discussed how the existing government employees can be mobilized at federal, provincial and local levels and how many more employees will have to be recurited," said Dahal, adding that a large number of government employees need to be transferred from the central level to the provincial and local levels to keep the provincial governments functioning until such governments makes permanent arrangement.
Currently, there are over 80,000 civil servants in the public administration.
The new constitution has made a provision that 20 different issues will be dealt with by the federal government, 28 other issues by provincial government and 20 issues by the local government. Based on the division, the transitional plan is being formulated, informed Dahal.
He said the number of ministries at the federal level will be reduced remarkably. Administration experts have argued that since the provincial states will also have various ministries, more than twelve ministries at the center would be superfluous.
"We are also studying which ministries can be dismantled," said he.
Bureaucrats involved in preparation of the transitional plan have speculated that it would take around five years for the government to set up all kinds of administrative institutions and enroll employees at all levels of the federal government.
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