High-level team to evaluate tasks of ministries

The government has formed a high-level team to evaluate work performance of all the ministries setting specific criteria in a bid to make them more efficient and responsible.
The Office of the Prime Minister and Council Minister (OPMCM) has constituted the team led by Dharanidhar Khatiwada, secretary at the OPMCM.
Representatives from the Ministry of Finance (MoF), National Planning Commission (NPC) and Ministry of Energy (MoE) are also members of the team that is charged with formulating the evaluation paramenters within the next 15 days.
“The panel will develop a standard format that would help evaluate the performance of the different ministries. However, the parameters will vary from ministry to ministry. We will start evaluating the performance of the ministries once a standard format is developed. We are now developing 10 different indicators to judge performance,” Khatiwada told Republica.
According to him, the evaluation would compel ministries to meet program targets within a specific time period. Earlier, ministries prepared monthly progress report on their own without following any specific format.
The government´s move comes as a part of OPMCM´s action plan for good governance. “The team will also prepare evaluation reports of all the ministries and submit it to the government,” he said. The evaluation report will categorize ministries into three levels-- average, higher than average and below average- based on their performance.
The government has introduced the new system of performance evaluation, at a time when the government programs have been affected due to lack of full-fledged budget for the fiscal year 2012/13.