The SAARC committee on Saturday decided to dissolve three regional centres, including one in India, and merge four others to end the duplication of work and reduce its budget.
The 49th meeting of the programming committee comprises of joint secretaries of the SAARC countries.
The centres that would be dissolved include the Information Centre in Kathmandu, Human Resource Development Centre in Islamabad and the New Delhi-based Documentation Centre, according to officials at the Foreign Ministry.
The move aims to end the duplication of work carried out by the regional centres and to economise the budget of the centres, the officials said. The meeting also decided to merge the SAARC Forestry Centre in Bhutan, Disaster Management Centre in New Delhi, Coastal Zone Management Centre in Maldives and Meteorological Research Centre in Dhaka into a single body.