KATHMANDU, Feb 19: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has reiterated that the government is prioritizing fundamental reforms to ensure good governance.
“To ensure fundamental reforms for good governance, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport has taken positive steps,” the PM Dahal said in a meeting with a team of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Narayan Kaji Shrestha at the official residence of the Prime Minister in Baluwatar today.
The prime minister expressed his hope that the government stresses the expansion of development activities, reforms and promptness in administrative work, and that this would yield positive results.
"There is a need to have a right viewpoint toward development. For this, the government is at work to amend the acts and laws," he said.
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All state organs and levels should be committed and coordinated to drive the country on the path to development and prosperity, he said.
"The incumbent government is committed to achieve the goals of social justice, good governance and prosperity. So, there should be coordination and resolution in this regard," he said.
On the occasion, he also praised the efforts of the transport ministry to address the day-to-day problems of people through a task force involving experts.
The ministry has formed an infrastructure development system reform task force led by Prof Dr Surya Raj Acharya, a whole transport reform study taskforce led by former secretary Sharad Chandra Paudel, and a good governance reform suggestion task force led by Prof Dr Rajendra Prasad Adhikari.
DPM Shrestha said the ministry had carried out many reforms in the physical infrastructure and transport to keep up with the PM's goal to take quality strides in development activities alongside social justice and pursue socialism-oriented prosperity while providing immediate and long term reliefs to people. For this, amendments of many acts and laws are needed, he said.
On the occasion, the taskforce leaders Dr Acharya and Paudel briefed the prime minister on the priority subjects of the task forces.
(RSS)
