5th PCC meeting of Bagmati Province concludes making 23 different decisions

Makawanpur, Jan 18: The fifth meeting of Provincial Coordination Council of the Bagmati Province concluded on Friday making 23 different decisions. The two-day meeting was organized in Hetauda from January 16.

The meeting decided to recommend various decisions including providing ownership of Ranju ropeway, to pass the Electricity Bill soon and to provide budget for the reconstruction of disaster-hit areas to the National Coordination Council. 

Similarly, the decision of making special legal arrangement for reconstruction of heritages having archeological importance by amending Public Procurement Act was also recommended  as well as the meeting took the decision of providing authority of issuing climbing permit of mountains of 6,000-7,000 meters and collecting  royalties to  the province. 

The meeting was chaired by Chief Minister of Bagmati Province, Bahadur Singh Lama, where ministers, people's representatives of local levels, chief of District Coordination Committee, among others were present. 

On the occasion, Secretary of the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, Bed Prasad Bhandari, presented working paper on Employees Management in Province and Local Levels while Secretary at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law Ministry, Purna Bahadur Darjee, on Disaster Management and Its Challenges, and Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Krishna Mainali, on Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer and Revenue Distribution. (RSS)