Federal Government: The enormous size delaying the federalism.
The Constitution of Nepal. 2072, has clearly listed the power and scope of the three governments; federal, province and local governments and the power sharing between them. Despite the allocation of works of each government, the failure to formulate laws by the federal legislature has created a big dispute between the power exercise between these three governments which has raised question over the efficiency of province and local governments.
Currently, there are 22 ministries in the federal government which are still exercising the powers allocated to province and local governments.
S.N | Ministry | नेपालीमा |
1 | प्रधानमन्त्री तथा मन्त्रिपरिषदको कार्यालय | |
2 | रक्षा मन्त्रलय | |
3 | गृह मन्त्रलय | |
4 | कृषि तथा पशुपंक्षी विकास मन्त्रालय | |
5 | कानुन, न्याय तथा संसदीय मामिला मन्त्रालय | |
6 | शिक्षा, विज्ञान तथा प्रविधि मन्त्रलय | |
7 | श्रम, रोजगार तथा सामाजिक सुरक्षा मन्त्रलय | |
8 | अर्थ मन्त्रलय | |
9 | खानेपानी मन्त्रलय | |
10 | ऊर्जा, जलस्रोत तथा सिँचाई मन्त्रलय | |
11 | परराष्ट्र मन्त्रलय | |
12 | सञ्चार तथा सूचना प्रविधि मन्त्रलय | |
13 | स्वास्थ्य तथा जनसङ्ख्या मन्त्रलय | |
14 | संस्कृति, पर्यटन तथा नागरिक उड्डयन मन्त्रलय | |
15 | भौतिक पूर्वाधार तथा यातायात मन्त्रलय | |
16 | Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation | भूमि व्यवस्था, सहकारी तथा गरिबी निवारण मन्त्रलय |
17 | उद्योग, वाणिज्य तथा आपूर्ति मन्त्रलय | |
18 | सहरी विकास मन्त्रलय | |
19 | युवा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रलय | |
20 | महिला, बालबालिका तथा ज्येष्ठ नागरिक मन्त्रलय | |
21 | वन तथा वातावरण मन्त्रलय | |
22 | सङ्घीय मामिला तथा सामान्य प्रशासन मन्त्रालय |
There is need of massive reduction in the federal ministries and their scope of work by releasing respective works to province and local governments. About 14 ministries in federal government are sufficient to address the federal powers.
The current lower house parliament consists of 275 members. As parliament members role is to formulate policies not meant to develop infrastructure. One representative per district is enough. So, 77 parliament members representing each district is enough for parliament. The national assembly or the Rastriya Sabha consists of 59 members. It can be restructured to include experts from various fields that cannot be represented in the parliament with 23 members making total size of legislature 100 only which will drastically cut off current size of 334.
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