Spokesman at the ministry, Suresh Adhikari, informed that the UNDP-funded Project to Prepare the Public Administration for State Reforms (PREPARE), whch is under MoGA, is currently working out strategies in this connection.
"As part of the strategies, the project is currently engaged in functional analysis and division of work among government bodies from the centre to the provincial to local levels once Nepal adopts a federal setup," Adhikari said.
Senior National Advisor at PREPARE, Dinesh Prasad Pant, said that the project that began in March last year has almost completed a first-phase report.
The report will incorporate a range of issues such as possible administrative structure in the federal setup, assessment of positive discrimination in government services following introduction of the inclusion policy in 2007, and institutional development of administrative bodies such as the Public Service Commission. The report will also review various aspects of the Civil Service Act.
According to Pant, the first-phase report is focused on functional analysis and work division in the five core areas of education, health, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure, and drinking water. Another part of the report is focused on inclusiveness and decentralization of government services.
Pant informed that in the second phase, functional analysis will be conducted on forestry, industry and tourism, land administration, law and order, and commerce and supplies.
The project under MoGA will also prepare strategies regarding the number of government employees, the organizational structure of government bodies from the centre to the local levels under the federal setup.
"There are technical committees at the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Urban Development. These technical committees are working with us in the preparation of strategies for their structure from the central to the local level after Nepal goes federal," Pant said.
In its functional analysis, the project talks about the structure of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority under a federal system.
"We are also planning to carry out functional analysis on governance, service delivery, social service, economic service and physical infrastructure development," Pant added.
MoGA will prepare an outline with regard to the roles and responsibilities of the civil service from the central to provincial level in the days ahead, Spokesman Adhikari said.
"The report will be focused on how the civil service should work to ensure a people-oriented service in the new decentralized system after promulgation of the new constitution," Adhikari added.
"The country is moving ahead to draft a new constitution but parties are still divided on the federalism model, something in which the role of government bodies is equally important," Pant opined.
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