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Obstacle To Development
Obstacle To Development
KTM Metro Reporter
July 16, 2017
Kathmandu: Even after more than a month Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has not been able to form an appropriate cabinet to run the State affairs. He himself has been holding most of the portfolios of the different ministries. A single person can handle such a large number of ministries and make decisions on the daily administration is not only questionable but even impossible.
Naturally, Prime Minister Deuba has been holding up the important decisions on implementation of different development projects. This has been a regular practice of any new prime minister to follow. The most sufferers of this trend have been the development projects.
The report on the research the World Bank conducted has said that a new government takes three to seven months before making any decisions on the large development projects. So, such development projects practically remain idle for such a long time.
First thing, each new government has to do is to make a complete cabinet, which takes a long time. Most of the new governments are coalition governments. Each prime minister has to accommodate so many aspirants of different coalition partners for the ministerial positions. That is why it takes such a long time to complete a cabinet.
Then, each minister has to appoint new project chiefs or CEOs. Those project chiefs and CEOs have to familiarize with the projects, and then only they could move on implementing the projects. They have to keep the party interest above the national interest while running the projects.
These are sickening reasons for deadly delay in the completion of large development projects causing time overrun and cost overrun denying any reasonable benefits from such projects to the common folks.
