Today's meeting of the House of Representatives has unanimously passed the 'Monitoring and Evaluation Bill-2080'.
Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma, on behalf of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', presented the proposal seeking the passage of the bill.
The bill along with the report of State Affairs and Good Governance Committee was discussed in today's HoR meeting.
The bill that originated in the National Assembly has an objective of making monitoring and evaluation of development policies and plan, program and project systematic.
On the occasion, Minister Sharma shared that this law was necessary to ensure public accountability making the development process result-oriented and transparent.
A target has been set to make monitoring and evaluation activities regular and periodic and make heads of public bodies accountable specifying their responsibilities.
The HoR will next meet on March 4. (RSS)
