“Donor funded projects are found to have been hiring foreign or domestic consultants, paying them handsome salary. We have to end such practice and utilize experts available in the ministry as much as possible so that administrative cost will not go up unnecessarily,” said Poudel, while instructing chiefs of different divisions, departments and projects under the MoAD on Sunday. [break]
MoAD´s record shows the donor funded projects were among the low performing programs during the fiscal year 2011/12.
Poudel also expressed dissatisfaction over the duplication of programs supported by the government and non-governmental organizations and urged the officials to adopt one-window channel for the project fund. “Instead of dispersing budget, we should fund only the result-oriented programs,” Poudel said.
Poudel also instructed the officials to come up with programs to boost production of export-quality agro produces.
“We can utilize experience of overseas job returnees to boost farm production in the country. This will also help us retain overseas seekers here,” he added.
He also urged the officials to put national interest first while accepting donor-funded projects.
Prabhakar Pathak, spokesperson of the MoAD, said the ministry has called a meeting of department heads, division chiefs and project coordinators on Wednesday to chart out strategies for implementation of the instructions given by the chief secretary.
Related story
20 development projects that will be watched in 2020
