Bagmati Province Cabinet Appointments and Policy Approvals

Hetauda. Damodar Khanal of Makwanpur has been appointed as the Chief Political Advisor to Bagmati Province Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniya. The decision was made during the cabinet meeting held on Thursday.

Khanal, the former chairman of Bakaiya Rural Municipality in Makwanpur, currently serves as the Federal President of the Nepali Congress, Makwanpur Constituency No-1.

According to government spokesperson and Minister of Internal Affairs and Law, Prabhat Tamang, the meeting also appointed Dr. Prem Narayan Aryal, former Vice-Chancellor of Pokhara University, as a patron member of the Bagmati Province University. Additionally, Krishna Raj Adhikari from Dhading was appointed as the chairman of the Information Report Committee, with Ashok Shrestha from Makwanpur as a member.

The cabinet decided to assign additional responsibilities of the Ministry of Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation to Provincial Secretary Khubiram Adhikari, who is currently working at the Ministry of Social Development. Baburam Puri, who previously held the responsibility for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, has been relieved of that role and assigned solely to the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers.

Spokesperson Tamang stated that the meeting appointed Shankhabuddha Lama as the chairman of the Namobuddha Area Development Committee. The cabinet also accepted the resignation of Dr. Arjun Prasad Sapkota, an 11th-level health service official, and approved the resignation of Damodar KC, an official of the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee, effective from Magh 5, due to health reasons.

According to Minister Tamang, the meeting passed a new policy for performance evaluation management following the Gen-Z movement. The cabinet also approved the Poverty Alleviation Policy 2082 and the Educational Scholarship Guidelines 2083.

The meeting granted approval to submit the draft of the Provincial Tourism (First Amendment) Act 2082 and the Provincial National Forest Act (First Amendment) 2083 to the Provincial Assembly. Furthermore, the cabinet approved the Tribhuvan Park Operation and Management Committee (First Amendment) Formation Order 2082 and the fiscal equalization grant amount to be transferred to local levels for the upcoming fiscal year 2083/084.