KATHMANDU: Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Aman Lal Modi has said preparations are ongoing to provide special facilities and concessions to the national personalities for their medical treatment on par with the civil servants in the Civil Service Hospital, Kathmandu.

Minister Modi stated that this provision would be introduced in reverence to the national personalities.

“I am ever ready to support and coordinate on behalf of the government for the national personalities such as artists, sportspersons and families of enforced disappearance and martyrs for them to avail concessional medical treatment like civil employees in the Civil Service Hospital,” he said.

“I am going to undertake this initiative in reverence of the national personalities,” he added.

Assuring that the State would give due recognition to the artistes, the Minister committed that he will ensure that there would be a change in the perspectives of the civil employees when it comes to delivery of public services.

According to him, the incumbent government was moving towards ending the tendency of dillydally in delivery of public services and corruption in the bureaucracy thereby maintaining good-governance.