Federal Restructure - 800 districts
Proposed federal restructure of District HQ functions to roughly Rural Market Centre/Ilaka level with approx 5 VDCs per federal district. Cf currently about 950 Ilaka's within 75 districts, and an unclear number of Rural Market Centers (say 1500). Implies urbanization of more than the current 200 or so fast tracked RMCs with corresponding extension of transport, electrification and telecoms. Assuming 11 autonomous states there would be about 73 federal districts per state. No mention of earlier idea for 3 autonomous substates within Madheshi state.
New Nepal with 800 districts
The Culture and State Restructure Minister, Gopal Kiranti, has proposed a new conception about the geo-political structure of the Federal Democratic Republic. According to his proposal, the Federal Republic will have 800 districts all over the country. Now, there are only 75 districts in the country.
The Federal Republic will have three layers of the administrative mechanism. There will be a Federal (central) government or the government of Nepal on top, autonomous state government in the middle and the local (districts) governments at the lower level. The central government will ‘play the role of co-ordination’. The autonomous state government will ‘exercise political rights or the exercise of class struggle’ and the local government will play ‘the role of peace, security and reconstruction’.
According to the concept proposed by Minister Kiranti, the concept of the local body will be based on the concept of 800 districts. It means that there will be 800 local governments. Eight hundred districts mean 800 bazaars, 800 hundred industrial cities, 800 modern hospitals, 800 universities and 800 grand communes. Politically, it will be the institutionalization of ‘direct democracy’ instead of ‘formal or parliamentary democracy’.
The culture of the marginalized will be given priority. Different cultures will be promoted. The culture, having the character of People’s Republic and nationalities, will be established. That will be the foundation of People’s Culture against expansionist and imperialist culture. The culture will promote the culture of multi-caste and be multi-lingual. -Pratik Sigdel
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