Kathmandu, June 25
About 7 per cent
local bodies have failed to present the budget for the upcoming fiscal year
2022/23 by the stipulated date – 10th of Ashadh or June 24 this
year, set by the Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangement Act, 2017.
Pokhara
Metropolitan City has announced its budget a day later on Saturday while 26
municipalities and 25 rural municipalities couldn't present their policy,
programmes and budgets till Saturday.
Madhes province
tops the list of non-performing local bodies with 20 municipalities and 12 rural
municipalities failing to announce the next year's budget.
Gandaki province
is the only sub-national entity where all local governments have presented
their budget.
According to
Municipalities Association Nepal (MuAN), 26 municipalities have failed to
present their budget – 3 from Province 1, 20 from Madhes, 1 from Bagmati and 2
from Karnali.
Likewise,
National Association of Rural Municipalities said in a statement that 12 rural
municipalities of Madhes, three of Lumbini, two of Bagmati and one each of
Karnali and Sururpaschim couldn't announce their annual estimates of income and
expenditure. It also informed that contact with two rural municipalities each
from Karnali, Sururpaschim and Province 1 couldn't be made till Saturday
evening.
In terms of
percentage, 95 per cent of rural municipalities (435 out of 460) have presented
their budget while 91.1 per cent municipalities (267 out of 293) could announce
it.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 26 June 2022.
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