{"id":299334,"date":"2026-05-14T21:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=299334"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:50:05","slug":"prime-ministers-office-directs-government-offices-to-repair-and-operate-old-equipment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/prime-ministers-office-directs-government-offices-to-repair-and-operate-old-equipment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister&#8217;s Office directs government offices to repair and operate old equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has issued strict directives to adopt austerity in public expenditure, curbing the tendency of unnecessary new goods in government agencies. <\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_6e0124e0d837afb2\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>The office on Thursday issued a circular to all ministries, commissions, secretariats, departments and offices of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of all seven provinces.TAG_OPEN_p_10 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-path-to-node=\"5\"> The directive has directed to stop the trend of purchasing new furniture (chair, drawer, sofa), carpet, curtain, pots and electronic appliances (computer, mobile, laptop) that are in use immediately after the appointment, posting or transfer of office heads. Apart from this, the equipment, equipment and vehicles that can be brought into operation after minor repairs have been asked not to purchase new ones without repairing them. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-path-to-node=\"5\"> cautioned not to create additional burden on the state exchequer by spending undue expenses in the name of maintenance.\u00a0It has also requested the authorities to keep the tools, equipment and vehicles in the office in running and maintain austerity in public expenditure. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken through a circular signed by Surya Bahadur Basnet, section officer at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, after receiving widespread complaints about the purchase of new goods in various government agencies.TAG_OPEN_p_7 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has issued strict directives to adopt austerity in public expenditure, curbing the tendency of unnecessary new goods in government agencies. The office on Thursday issued a circular to all ministries, commissions, secretariats, departments and offices of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":124631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299335,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299334\/revisions\/299335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/124631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}