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Lesson District Co-ordination Committee,
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Its Composition and Functions

There are 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan
FACTS cities, 293 municipalities, 460 Gaunpalikas and 77
to Understand District Coordination Committees in Nepal.

A district is a division of territory as of a country or state marked off for
administrative, electoral or other purposes. Being a democratic republican country,
Nepal also has several districts for its development. There were 77 districts in
Nepal which were created on Baisakh 1, 2018 but at present there are 77 district
in federal government. Each district has headquarters and the Chief District
Officer is the head of the district. In order to carry out overall development of the
district DCC, i.e. District Coordination Committee is formed. Ministry of Federal
Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) is the governing body in Nepal. The
local governance in Nepal puts DCCs to the body lower to the Ministerial level
and above the Gaunpalika and Municipality in the same district.

District Assembly and District Coordination Committee

There is a District Assembly (Zilla Sabha) to make coordination between Rural
Municipalities (Gaunpalika) and Municipalities (Nagarpalikas).

The District Assembly consists of chairpersons and vice chairpersons of Rural
Municipalities and Mayors and Deputy Mayors of Municipalities within the
district. The District Assembly shall elect the members of District Coordination
Committee (DCC) consisting of a maximum of nine members including one chief,
one deputy chief, at least three women and at least one Dalit or minority. The
District Coordination Committee shall discharge all functions required to be
discharged by the District Assembly. A member of a village Assembly or Municipal
Assembly within the concerned district shall be eligible for the office of chief,
deputy chief or member of District Coordination Committee. The term of office of
the chief, deputy chief and members of the District Coordination Committee shall
be five years after the date of being elected.

The functions, duties and powers of the District Assembly are as follows:
(a) To make coordination between the Gaunpalikas and Nagarpalikas within
the district
(b) To monitor development and construction work to make balance of such
work

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