Kathmandu,December 26.The second meeting of the Karnali Province Coordination Council has started in the province capital Surkhet this morning. Chief Minister of the Karnali province government Mahendra Bahadur Shahi opened the meeting which will review the status of implementation of the commitments made by the Council’s first meeting. On the first day of the meeting, National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission chairman Balananda Poudel will give a presentation on the interrelations and allocation of rights among the federal, province and the local levels while National Planning Commission (NPC) member Min Bahadur Shahi will give a presentation on the 15th Five-Year-Plan of the Government of Nepal and coordination among all the three tiers of government regarding plan formulation, Chief Secretary of the Province Government, Kebal Prasad Bhandari said. Likewise, Vice Chairman of the Karnali Province Planning Commission, Prof Dr Punya Prasad Regmi will share the First Periodic Plan of the Kanali Province and the works carried out so far by the Commission while Province Chief Secretary Bhandari will make a presentation on the policy and program of the province for the current fiscal year as well as the functioning of the Province Government. Secretary at the Province Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Bihnu Prasad Nepal will present a paper on implementation of the current fiscal year’s budget and fiscal transfer, an official of the Central Bureau of Statistics will present paper on the 12th national census and the a representative of the Province and Local Governance Support Program will present a paper on capacity building of the province government and the local levels, the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers stated. On the second day of the meeting, the chiefs of the District Coordination Committees, the mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Rural Municipalities of the province will be given five minutes each to put their views regarding the exercise of the concurrent rights, strategic preparation in plan management and forging the policy coordination between the province government and local levels regarding utilization and distribution of natural resources. Three hundred people including the ministers of the province government, the office-bearers and members of the national and province planning commission, experts, the chiefs of the District Coordination Committees, mayors and deputy mayors of 25 municipalities, chair and vice-chair of 54 rural municipalities from 10 districts of the Karnali province, the secretary of the province and the chief administrative officers of all the local levels. The meeting will last for two days.
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