53rd meeting of National Development Problem Solving Committee held

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Nov 15: The 53rd meeting of the National Development Problem Solving Committee has commenced at Singha Durbar today with a view to discuss on status of overall economic indicators, progress of existing projects and problems and ways of solutions.

According to the secretariat of the Prime Minister, there are 15 agenda that include national pride projects and their problems, causes and solutions in the meeting chaired by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

Included in the agenda of the meeting are issues pertinent to governance reform, use of forest area in projects of national priority, project bank, district level rate for public procurement purposes, the operation of juvenile detention center and campaign to child free street, government buildings in federal, provincial and local levels, complementary grants, action plan of the 16^th National Plan, management of the contract of multi-year projects, regulation on electricity tariff collection, compulsory and free education, internship in public services, construction of infrastructure of disaster resilience, reconstruction and rehabilitation after disaster.

Vice-Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Prof. Dr. Shiva Raj Adhikari, made a presentation on issues including trend and status of overall economic indexes, status of mobilization of public finance by the government, socio-economic progress status till date since start of federalism, overall economic condition of provinces, and status of implementation of the decisions of the three previous meeting of the National Development Problem Solving Committee.

Participating in the meeting are Deputy PM and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel, other Ministers, Chief Ministers of provinces, PM's principal advisor, chief secretary, chief of army staff, secretaries of federal and provincial governments.