Government will change its style of working: PM Dahal

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the government shall change its style of working.

In an address to the nation on the occasion of the completion of one year of his government today, he said that the legal, policy and procedural complexities of infrastructure development will be solved based on a work schedule and time table.

He also announced making structural changes in the Prime Minister’s Office, to give an indication of the way forward.  “Though the government did not fail but the outcome is not as per my willingness to deliver during this term,” he said while pledging to self-assess on the basis of not about how much the country has achieved but how much it could have achieved.

The Prime Minister pledged not to spend time attending to programmes except that are already pre-scheduled and unavoidable. “I have come to the conclusion to start working on the new policy and programmes, and the budget, while addressing the problems in development and governance,” he said. This will be the start of changing the working style of the government.

Pointing out complications in clearing hurdles in infrastructure development, including in using forest land and land acquisition, he said. “I will put an end to the tendency of obstructing the country’s development by pointing fingers at one another. I believe that if needed infrastructure development should be given top priority even by declaring an emergency.”