Biratnagar. Koshi Province's Public Accounts Committee has directed the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers' Office not to spend excessively in the name of consultants without utilizing the employee mechanism. A meeting of the committee held at the Provincial Assembly Secretariat on Friday instructed that the Chief Minister's Office, which has been spending crores of rupees on consultancy services for various policy-making and studies, should discourage such activities in the future.A clause-by-clause discussion was held on the seventh annual report of the Auditor General in the meeting. During the discussion, MPs questioned Secretary Narayan Prasad Risal of the Chief Minister's...