FinMin Poudel directs employees to meet revenue collection target
KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has directed the employees of the ministry and its subordinate bodies to work hard to meet the revenue collection target mentioned in the budget.
BIRATNAGAR: Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has directed the customs employees to work honestly and transparently. After inspecting Biratnagar Customs Office today, Finance Minister Mahat shared, “You are in sensitive service like revenue collection of the state. No one has right to misuse their responsibilities or carry out illegal activities. We will not excuse […]
Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat has asked the employees who are responsible for revenue collection to work with punctuality, honesty and disciplinary manner.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Paudel has urged the employees of the customs administration to work sincerely so as not to let people complain about the services of the customs administration. “The present government has a policy of zero tolerance against corruption, smuggling and revenue leakage. So, I want to request all employees working in the customs points to work honestly facilitating legal trade and controlling illegal trade and customs leakage,” DPM Paudel said while addressing the programme of the 71st International Customs Day organised by the Department of Customs here on Thursday. He said that business costs could be reduced, trade could be facilitated and revenue leakage could be controlled only through technology-based system at the customs. In the first six months of the current fiscal year, the target of revenue collection was not met, and the revenue was 16 per cent less compared to the revenue collected in the corresponding period last year, he said, and urged the department officials to work to meet the target of revenue collection.
NEPALGUNJ, June 14: A five-day virtual training ‘Enhancement of Local Government Operations and Management Effectiveness’, organized by Lumbini Province Training Academy, Nepalgunj, Banke, concluded on Sunday.
Training Academy’s Executive Director Moti Prasad Sharma said the training was organized to further improve performance of newly-recruited public service employees working at assistant level and enhance effectiveness of service being delivered by local levels as the doorstep governments.
As many as 42 employees serving the local levels of Banke and Bardia districts under Lumbini Province took part in the first phase of the training held on 9-13 June.
At the onset of the training programme organized with the support of Province and Local Governance Support Programme (PLGSP), Sharma highlighted the role of the province training academy in strengthening capacity of the local levels.
“There was no option to impart the training through virtual mode owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we will conduct the training programme further effectively in coming days so as to contribute to the quality delivery of public services”, Sharma added.
Curriculum Development Expert of the Training Academy, Bishnu Neupane said that the training was delivered by different thematic experts being based on the curriculum prepared by the Academy. Among the key thematic areas of the training were note writing and its style, public assets management system (PAMS), professional communications and correspondence, roles and responsibilities of local governments, gender equality and social inclusion, localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), rights of local levels on revenue collection and mobilization, public procurement, Right to Information, appreciative inquiry, budget formulation process and use of SUTRA, service delivery in pandemic, audit and arrear settlement, planning and development management, execution and monitoring, among others, Nepane elaborated.
Training Coordinator Tek Narayan Dhakal said the resource materials and certificates would be handed over to the participants in their respective local level.
