Constitution to be reviewed with broad consensus

Kathmandu, May 2: The government has adopted a policy to undertake a review of the Constitution, reinforce its strengths, and, on the basis of broad consensus, pursue the process of amendment to rectify shortcomings observed in the process of its implementation.

According to the government’s policy and programmes for the fiscal year 2025/26 presented by President Ramchandra Paudel at the federal parliament today, the government will also work to strengthen the Constitution and the federal democratic republican system of governance, and to oppose the regressive revivalist, anarchic activities of any form aimed against it.

Policy continuity will be ensured by sustaining political stability through the policy of healthy competition, mutual dialogue, cooperation, and coexistence.

Likewise, the government will oriented itself during the coming financial year to change the model, pace and culture of development to improve the shortcomings that have emerged in the course of development; re-prioritize all projects in physical infrastructure sector announced by various governments in the past; determine a timeline for the projects to be completed in the fiscal year 2082/83 B.S. and those within the tenure of this Parliament by classifying the projects; assess the required resources for all ongoing and proposed projects, suspend those deemed unfeasible, and terminate the faulty ones.

The government shall introduce policy and legal arrangements to address the challenges facing school education, and to orient university education towards knowledge, research, and development. “To end the situation of shortage of skilled workforce and the surplus of unskilled labour, the policy of “Entrepreneurship-Friendly Education” shall be adopted, and for this the existing curriculum, learning and pedagogy shall be comprehensively reform.”

Furthermore, the government will enhance income-generating opportunities by creating domestic employment through enterpreneurship; initiate youth-focused start-up programmes, keep ‘GenZ’ generation in special priority and ensure business plans and their ecosystems across all enterprises.

The imbalances between service providers – hospitals, doctors, healthcare personnel – and service seekers shall be addressed together with expansion of infrastructure, making health services accessible and affordable and aligning all health-related aid and subsidy programmes with health insurance scheme.

Likewise, all the programmes run by government agencies shall be oriented towards entrepreneurship development, production, productivity and employment generation, while agriculture shall be commercialized and infrastructure built through cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the three tiers of governments.

Work shall be done to expand “faceless service” to make public service effective while making all the services online as much as possible by developing the ‘Nagarik App’ as the main digital tool for providing such services.

Development programmes as provisioned in the List of Concurrent Powers of the Federation, Province and Local level of the Constitution shall be implemented in a coordinated manner. An Integrated Project Bank System shall be developed to avoid duplication in development programmes among the three levels of government.