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Power and Functions of District Development Committee(DDC)

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District Development Committee is a committee which is established in a district to carry out all the administrative and clerical functions of a district. These committees are intended to encourage decentralization in decision making and provide a responsive and responsible administration by involving in different kinds of district's function.
Power and Functions of District Development Committee(DDC)

Power and Functions of District Development Committee

District Development Committee
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District Development Committee is a committee which is established in the district to carry out all the administrative as well as clerical functions of a district. These committees are intended to encourage decentralization in decision making and provide a responsible administration by involving in different kinds of district's function. There are some major functions of DDC, they are as follows:

  1. It provides a responsive administration at the district level.
  2. It prepares a budget for different developmental programs and presents it to District Council for approval.
  3. It preserves and promotes cultural heritages of the district.
  4. To constitute sub-committees, supervise the work of VDCs and municipalities to provide them suggestions.
  5. It audits the account of VDCs and municipalities.
  6. To monitor the implementation of various policies made by the government of Nepal.
  7. To provide balanced development and equitable access to various facilities among the districts.
  8. It provides assistance to the victims of different natural calamities like flood, earthquake, landslide etc.
  9. It helps to prevent the people of the district from epidemics and healthhazards.
  10. It makes a recommendation to the council of ministers to resolve specific problems of the district.

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Things to remember
  1. District Development Committee is a committee which is established in a district to carry out all the administrative and  clerical functions of the district. 
  2. It provides a responsive administration at the district level.
  3. It prepares budget for different developmental programs and presents it to District Council for approval.
  4. It preserves and promotes cultural heritages of the district.
  • It includes every relationship which established among the people.
  • There can be more than one community in a society. Community smaller than society.
  • It is a network of social relationships which cannot see or touched.
  • common interests and common objectives are not necessary for society.
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The main responsibility of a DDC is to carry out all the administrative functions, execute and monitor the development works of a district.

DDC checks and controls drug abuse by organizing different awareness programmes and seminars about negative effects of drugs in the human's life.

The health programs run by my DDC are as follows:

  1. It Conducts awareness programmes and seminars related to safety and health of human's life.
  2. It Provides different medicines and vaccination to the local people to prevent from different threatening diseases like HIV AIDS, Hepatitis, etc.

DDC provides help to the victims of different natural calamities by:

  1. Providing foods and medicines to the suffered people.
  2. Providing shelter to the needy people.

The two functions of DDCs are as follows :

  • It prepares budget for different development programs and present it to the District Council for approval.
  • It controls soil erosion.

The functions of DDC are as follows :

  • It prepares budget for different development programs and presents it to the District Council for approval
  • It brings various positive changes in different sectors of the society like education, sanitation, environment, health, women empowerment, drinking water, etc.
  • It preserves and promotes cultural heritages of the district.
  • It audits the account of VDCs and municipalities.
  • It works to prevent epidemics.
  • It constructs and maintains roads, bridges, sewage channels, canals, ponds and taps, etc
  • It executes the works and duties assigned by the government of Nepal.

 

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An audit is an examination of the accounts officially in order to make sure that they have been done correctly.

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