Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has intensified works from Singh Durbar as per his address to the nation.

During the address he made on the completion of a year in office, PM Dahal had committed to change work style, which he argued, would be result-oriented.

In the last one month, PM Dahal did not attend public programmes except Saturday and holidays, but engrossed on the daily works from main administrative complex, Singha Durbar, according to PM’s personal secretary, Arjun Bhandari. PM Dahal spends most of the time at office.

“Every day, PM Dahal arrives at office at 10:00 am, and continues works for five to seven hours,” Bhandari said, adding that the PM was attentive on how country’s economy could be developed and public service delivery enhanced.

The PM has forwarded the activities as per the address he had. He regularly receives briefings from ministers, secretaries and chiefs of concerned bodies and facilities how the policy level hassles and hurdles could be wiped out.

Lately, the PM directed the concerned bodies to immediately provide driving licenses to 1.4 million service seekers. He also directed for effective monitoring of service delivery.

As per PM’s direction, the Finance Ministry has released necessary amount to clear dues to contractors.

The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security was given a 16-point directive. After the PM directed not to enforce the costly agreement on workers opting for jobs abroad, those going to Malaysia for jobs have got financial relief.

Another significant commitment PM Dahal made is end of ‘bhagbanda’ (political share) in university appointments, as per which the oldest university, TU, has made a vacancy announcement for open competition in the post of Vice Chancellor. Similarly, the university students will receive certificates online after some time.

Dialogue, discussion and interactions with concerned secretaries have been intensified by the PM so that they would be active to solve people’s problems.

PM Dahal has directed the Ministry of Physical Infrastructures and Transport to sort out problems on Muglin-Pokhara and Narayangadh-Butwal roadways.

Secretary at Office of the PM and Council of Ministers, Eknarayan Aryal, informed, “Monitoring and regulation of works as per PM’s direction was going on.”

The government has been able to secure increase in commitment of foreign direct investment (FDI) by 69.29 percent in the first six months of the current fiscal year.

Moreover, the government has prepared the drafts of 109 bills to be presented in the winter session.

The Ministry of Law is for forwarding at least 35 bills to the coming bill session of the federal parliament.

The PM’s attention is on forwarding ‘game changer’ projects and the national pride projects, said PM’s press advisor, Govinda Acharya.

As per PM’s direction, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation held discussion with chiefs of government-owned financial institutions, chiefs of the different organisations including Nepal Telecom about the investment model of 1200-MW hydropower project.

Meanwhile, PM Dahal participated in the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Kampala, Uganda and addressed the summit. He informed the world that Nepal would complete the remaining task of the peace process.