The leaders of political parties of Nepal are prone to get succumb to their parties’ self-interest for power. Once they get into the government their minds get lost even at this critical stage of national crises – “so much for just forming a cabinet to pave the road for Interim Government to perform the election of National Assembly!â€
One of the mistakes that leaders kept committing was their inability to find the common denominator to resolved the national crises. Instead they strived for their own self-interest.
Now we have found the common denominator “The Election Of The Constituent Assemblyâ€. We must therefore most precisely and vigilantly establish the secular Democratic legislature, executive and judiciary logistics to abolish feudal autocratic and oligarchic governing systems, which are creeping viruses in the government agencies.
hope you will not hesitate to agree with me to abolish following oligarchic logistics of the autocratic government:
1. Abolish ‘Chief District Officer’ as central government’s appointee to administer the districts of Nepal. This is an oligarchic logistic began from Rana regime. If in Democracy people are to rule themselves through electoral process from the grassroots of government practice, how can a central government appointee from Bhojpur run the district administration of Doti? Such practice from the government must be fundamentally and radically abolished in our “New Democratic Constitution.â€
We must campaign therefore to establish an autonomous district level government in our New Democratic Constitution.
As in most democratic countries’ government practice, the elected (state) district chairman or governor must run the district administration by forming a district cabinet from among the elected district assembly members in majority or collision just as in the federal or central government cabinet.
But any system of government that has central government’s appointee such as CDO that administers the state or district violates the fundamental rights and responsibility of people.
In last twelve years of multiparty system of government CDOS gave no place for the elected members of district assembly and district chair to legislate and administer the district. Instead few members became rebel and most of them remain puppets of CDOS to exploit the development budgets for their self-interest.
Thus CDOS had brought corruptions and injustice in the administration and development of the districts of Nepal.
We must campaign for New Democratic Constitution that can clearly define the off-limits of the Central Government:
The work of federal government is to formulate administrative policies to execute the legislations of the Parliament for the domestic and international relations with the broader national interest.
The New Constitution must secure independence of the local government to form its own cabinet with the district chair or governor.
The constitution must assure the district as autonomous government so it can formulate its own specific district government logistics and policies through the legislature of the local assembly.
For instant, the local government must have policy to collect local tax such as property tax, local wages tax, local sales tax, local income tax etc as its revenue.
In this New Constitution there should be clear distinction between what local revenues and what federal revenues are. Yet federal government must have policies to audit the local revenues to figure it out for the development assistance and natural disaster relief funds.
Similarly the electoral member of municipality and village council must form a cabinet under elected mayor to administer the cities and the villages.
There should be no appointees from the central government to administer the local body of the government.
Rather with the recommendation of the local government the central government will establish its agencies’ services on Education, Population, Agriculture, Industries, Transports etc.
The district Public Commission agency should provide the human resources for the managements of local government as per local government’s recommendation.
The New Constitution must make clear that the electoral members of the district assembly and chairperson, and electoral members of municipality assembly and mayor and members of village assembly and mayor must administer the local bodies of the government.
But it must be unconstitutional for the central government appointees to rule the local bodies of government. If the New Constitution did not abolish such logistics of oligarchic governance then that will be utter violation of fundamental rights of people of Nepal to have right and responsibility to rule themselves.
will continue as per your interest ............
