The flaws in the policies and programs of government of Nepal for the fiscal year 2011/12.

The proposed policies tries to address issues in economic sector, education, agriculture, culture, environment, national planning, telecommunication, information technology, unemployment to name a few.
One of the flaws of this proposed plan is that its not uniform. In some issues both the policy and the proposed plan to guide the policy into the right direction has been proposed while in some issues it lacks to do so. For instance, it is mentioned in the policy that,
“45. Special program will be introduced to revive and run sick industries” – it is not clear what special program is the government going to introduce and which industries will qualify as sick industries.
However, quite opposite to this, the policy also mentions, that
“25. Arrangement will be made to bring in most of the remittance through the banking channel. Remittance money will be encouraged to be invested in productive sectors including energy.”
Opposite to 45, the above mentioned policy clearly states how the government plans to bring in the remittance and how and where does it intend to use the remittance collected.
The other flaw is that perhaps this policy is a little too over ambitious in terms of meeting its expected targets. For a time span of one year, the proposed policies are possibly a little too farfetched. One of the other flaws of this policy is that, it aims at focusing into a lot of things with a lot of policies over a very short period of time. As the saying goes, ‘too many cooks spoils the broth’ this proposed policy might be an example of such a situation coming true in reality.
The policy is too vague in terms of its time span. It does not clearly state by which time does the GoN aims to meet its proposed plan. For instance, it is mentioned in the policy proposed that
“16. In order to maintain macroeconomic stability, timely changes will be made in fiscal and monetary policies. Public policies will be formulated on the basis of processed statistics from the recently conducted national census.”
The flaw here is that the time frame given is not concrete. The timely change here is not mentioned clearly, is the change is to be implemented semi annually, annually, or quarterly?
The policy also addresses to come with solution to resolve conflicts that has been engulfing nation for quite some time including in terai- madhesh on the basis of dialogue. The special mentioning of terai – madhesh isn’t appropriate. The entire country has been engulfed in the conflicts, special mentioning of the southern part of the state might give a separatist impression to many, which isn’t good for the sustainability of the national integrity.
The policies being presented seems to be prepared in a hassle without enough homework done. It is over ambitious as the issues are simply too much and too vast to be covered within the span of one year. It is a good thing that the policy takes into consideration all the sectors and does not leave out any sectors whatsoever. However, one flaw and a possible failure that may occur while doing so is that, as the saying goes ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’ focusing in just too many issues may result to no success in resolving any issue. Hence, it might be better if the policy concentrated its focus more on lesser issues, focusing in something and getting it done rather than making a failed attempt of focusing on everything and getting nothing done.