Kathmandu, July 4
The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers says it has launched a ‘movement’ to control foreign junkets involving high level government staff.
As the first step of the movement, the OPMCM has written a letter to selected ministries ordering them to inform it with all details of the visits made in past three weeks.
The ministries include the the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Supply and the Ministry of Energy.
They have been ordered to respond to the OPMCM within next three days explaining purposes of every foreign visit made since April 14.
Section Officer at the OPMCM, Bibek Ghimire, says the Office is planning to strictly implement the Foreign Visit Management Directive that wants to make the visits useful, fruitful, cost effective, transparent and well-managed.
