Kathmandu, Dec 30: The Public Administration Association of Nepal (PAAN) has suggested that the bureaucracy in the country should work by giving top priority to effective public service delivery, rule of law and fiscal discipline.
Addressing the 24th annual general assembly and 19th national conference on Saturday, Chairman of PAAN Krishna Hari Baskota said that there have been massive changes in the role of public administration and its operational model.
He viewed that public administration’s performance should be made credible, prompt and make people feel better through the use of electronic medium.
The PAAN has also drawn the attention of the stakeholders to run all the state entities based on democratic norms and values. It has urged to address the concerns relating to the electoral system and encourage the sharing of best practices carried out by three layer of governments.
On the occasion, former chair of Public Service Commission Umesh Prasad Mainali argued that the inclusive democracy is also a system that allows the less competent ones in the state mechanism for equal opportunities. “There is a question that the minority should sacrifice for the majority. System of reservation is there in politics and bureaucracy,” Mainali mentioned.
He stated that the bureaucracy should incorporate the missing views during policymaking. Likewise, public administration expert Trilochan Pokharel said that the issue of inclusion should be truly implemented even in practice by accepting the diversities existing in the country.
Associate Professor Dr Uddhav Pyakurel of Kathmandu University (KU), Hiramani Ghimire, former secretary Krishna Gyawali and other experts expressed their views on effective public service delivery, good-governance and the efforts to bring those marginalized ones in the mainstream of the state adding that some of the state mechanisms were not clear on the issue of inclusion.
The PAAN is to elect its new working committee from its ongoing 24th annual general assembly.
