Joint Monitoring and Review of Projects Funded Under Innovative Partnership Fund Concluded in Madhesh Province, 25 September 2023
Hon’ble Minister for the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (Ms. Anita Devi Sah), and the Mayor of Hanumannagar Kankalini Municipality (Birendra Majhi) have jointly inaugurated the “Agricultural Library” in Hanumannagar Kankalini Municipality in Saptari District on 25 Sept. 2023. The Agricultural Library has been established as an innovative project by the municipality in partnership with the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of Madhesh Province Government under the Provincial and Local Governance Support Programme.
The agricultural library includes the agricultural machinery and equipment aimed at providing assistance to the farmers including the smallhoder farmers and farmers from the poor and marginalized community and, thereby, contribute in the public service delivery and local economic development. The library was monitored jointly by a team from the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), National Planning Commission (NPC) and the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers from the Madhesh Province Government.
The monitoring team included the Hon’ble Minister from MoFAGA (Ms. Anita Devi Sah), Hon’ble Member of NPC (Dr. Jay Kant Raut), Secretary of MoFAGA (Binod Prakash Singh), and the MoFAGA team including Joint Secretary (Dr. Narayan Regmi), Joint Secretary/National Programme Director (Ram Kumar Mahato), National Programme Manager (Bhupendra Sapkota) and Administrative Officer (Anuj Ghimire); and the Senior Under-Secretary/Provincial Programme Manager (Rupesh Kumar Sah) from the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers from Madhesh Province Government.
The joint monitoring team also reviewed the overall progress and challenges of the projects funded under the Innovative Partnership Fund of the Provincial and Local Governance Support Programme in Madhesh Province in another event in Kanchanrup Municipality where the local governments presented their progress and the Mayor/Chairperson of the local governments of Saptari District expressed their expectations from their individual innovative projects and their plan for ensuring the sustainability of the projects. The event was organized by the Programme Coordination Unit of MoFAGA and facilitated by the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of Madhesh Province.
