Kathmandu, March 20
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called Chief Ministers of all seven provinces to Kathmandu, the Office of the PM said on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister will host the leaders for a meeting on Wednesday to understand their needs, the office said. This comes days after the chief ministers started complaining that legal and administrative hurdles make it difficult for them to stamp their authority. The chief ministers are also not clear about the pieces of legislation they are to present in the assemblies.
The provinces are also facing a shortage of civil servants as all bureaucrats transferred to the provinces have not reported to their workstations.
The PM’s office said that secretaries and chief attornies of the provinces have also been invited for the consultation. The Prime Minister will immediately act in accordance with the results of the meeting.
Law Minister Sher Bahadur Tamang said that as provincial governments are in their early days, the government is considering the option of formulating model laws for the provincial assemblies to take a leaf from. “The Prime Minister wants to bolster the authority of the provinces,” he said.
