The government recently unveiled a 100-point to-do list aiming to achieve governance reform by making government works more results-oriented, measurable, and accountable.
As part of enforcing this checklist unveiled on March 28 by the Balendra Shah-led government, various committees, task forces, and study teams will be formed within one month.
Point number 7 of the Governance Reform Blueprint is about the formation of a high-level investigation committee within one week to ascertain the facts surrounding the incidents that occurred on September 9, 2025, the second day of Gen Z movement.
According to the government announcement, this committee will have the mandate to gather and weigh up all relevant details related to the incidents, call out responsible parties, and submit a report within a specified timeframe.
The government also plans to take further necessary actions based on the recommendations of this committee.
The list also includes the government's plan to form a High-powered Property Investigation Committee within 15 days under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
The committee will act against tendencies of corruption, concealment of property, and impunity. It will include experts and representatives from the areas of law, finance, revenue, and investigation.
This committee will comprise experts from legal, economic, revenue, and investigative fields, along with representatives from relevant agencies.
Necessary legal and technical mechanisms will be developed to ensure that the entire process is transparent and results-oriented.
The committee will be authorized to collect documents, records, and information, analyze them, and submit recommendations.
In the first phase, the committee will investigate the property details of major political party officials and senior government officers who have held office from 2062–63 BS to 2082–83 BS. In the second phase, it will examine the assets of similar officials who held public office between 2048 and 2061/62 BS, it is said.
It has been mentioned that arrangements would be made to conduct the investigation process in a legal, evidence-based and impartial manner as well as implement the report and recommendation submitted by the committee through the concerned body.
A high-level taskforce would be formed to conduct comprehensive assessment of unproductive, and financial burden-creating boards, committees, projects and institutional structures in order to abolish, merge and restructure them.
The taskforce has representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Finance Ministry, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supply and Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, as per the Blueprint.
The taskforce would be asked to submit the report along with clear recommendations within a month.
Similarly, the issue of forming a study team within 30 days to resolve the problems of sick projects, contract-broken projects and unproductive investment and the team has to recommend whether or not such projects should be continued after carrying out relevance and feasibility assessment of the projects.
The Blueprint mentioned the formation of a taskforce immediately for organisation and management survey of the integrated structures within 30 days to end duplication of work responsibilities among the bodies including Investment Board Nepal, Trade and Export Promotion Centre and Department of Industry.
The taskforce would submit a report along with a clear roadmap, functional structure and necessary legal arrangements in order to transform investment promotion, export expansion and promotion, industrial development, project structuring and development finance related activities into a one stop service system in an integrated manner.
Based on the report, the necessary institutional and legal reform process would be taken forward immediately.
The Governance Reform Blueprint mentions that an inter-ministerial task force shall be formed to study the impact of international and regional crises, and based on this, the necessary policies and strategies would be prepared under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within 30 days.
A high-level inter-ministerial study task force will be formed, with representation from the relevant ministries, to timely evaluate and manage the multidimensional impacts that may affect Nepal in the economic, foreign employment, supply chain, energy, and social sectors due to the developing situation in the Middle East countries.
The task force will conduct a detailed study and submit a report within seven days, including short-term, medium-term, and long-term policy and programme measures, based on which necessary decisions and implementation processes will be promptly taken ahead as stated in the Blueprint action point.
Constitution Amendment Discussion Paper Task Force
The Council of Ministers on Monday has already decided to form a task force under the coordination of Prime Minister Balendra Shah's political advisor Asim Shah, with the participation of political parties represented in Parliament, to prepare a discussion paper on constitutional amendment in order to implement the topic specified in point number 4 of the Governance Reform Blueprint.
It is stated in the point number 4 that the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers will form a task force within seven days to prepare the 'Constitution Amendment Discussion Paper', to forge national consensus on making amendments to the constitution on topics like the country's long term political and institutional reform and the election system, among other topics, making this discussion process participatory, transparent and based on facts.
