3 years ago, the construction of a 2-storey concrete building was started at Harishiv Primary School in Bheri Municipality-1 Daurikada of Jajarkot under the Chief Minister Employment Programme. For this, Rs 15 lakh was allocated under the Chief Minister's Employment Programme.

Out of that, an additional 5 lakh rupees was allocated by the ward office. After the slope work has been completed, the main works such as walling, plastering, and 'partitioning' of the rooms are left. Bharat Chanara, chairman of the school management committee, said, "Neither the youth got employment nor the building was built. The building is becoming dilapidated after being abandoned. Now the children are using it as a playground." In the same year, 13 unemployed people were selected for the road connecting Chepadidanda-Gadigaon in Mahavu Rural Municipality-5 of Dailekh. "We were made to attend work, but money was given to dozers at the rate of 3,000 per hour," said Kamal Shahi, a local youth. But the procedure for that was made in the year 078. Because of this, the program has become ineffective since the beginning, said Devilal Gautam, the former head of Musikot Municipality of Rukum West. According to him, the effectiveness of the program has been seen to be low even after forming a consumer committee. "There are no young people in the villages, only the poor have access to this program," he said,  "Since the beginning, the program has been leading the poor to poorer and the homeless to more economic chaos." He said that during his tenure, the funds of the program were only spent on cleaning drains, repairing roads, and cutting bushes in all the wards.

According to Chief Minister Employment Program Operation Procedure-2078, agricultural infrastructure has been given first priority . Similarly, there are plans for physical infrastructure including roads, drinking water, ponds and reservoirs, irrigation and river control. But the provincial government does not even have the data of how much has been spent and how many people have been employed in this program, which was brought with the aim of providing employment opportunities to the youth and improving wages. For 6 years after the start of the program, neither the local levels nor the actual expenses incurred in the program and the details of the people who got employment.  Neither the state government is evaluating the program. Most of the programs started in the previous years under the program are stalled. ``1.5 million comes for a scheme, it is not enough to buy construction materials that will meet any scheme or to provide employment to the unemployed youth,'' said Kamal Bahadur Shah, Vice Chairman of Narharinath Rural Municipality of Kalikot, ``That's why the program's budget is used up in small irrigation schemes and road maintenance.'' 

Naraharinath Rural Municipality of Kalikot-9 Locals repairing roads under employment program in Lalu.

_{Photo : Krishna Prasad Gautam/Kantipur   In the current financial year, 1 billion 154 million rupees have been allocated for the Chief Minister's employment program. Out of which 1/1 plan is being constructed in 718 wards of Karnali, Navin Dhakal, administrative officer of the Chief Minister and Cabinet Office said. According to him, the program is being implemented in all the 79 wards of Karnali. "Wards have been given the full right to choose the plan," he said. He informed that 20 lakhs will be sent to the wards of Mugu, Dolpa and Humla and 15 lakhs to the wards of other districts. According to him, arrangements have been made to purchase construction materials by spending up to 50%. According to the Chief Minister's Office, 12 construction areas have been allocated under the}

program and employment opportunities have been provided. But in the name of employment program, only piecemeal plans such as general road maintenance, drain cleaning, weed removal, and culling are being implemented, said Ramchandra Regmi, a civic leader of Salyan. "Youth are forced to go to India and Gulf countries for work without getting jobs, now at least 70 percent of the youth are outside in all the villages," he said, "The government is misusing the funds by distributing the budget to its workers under the name of employment program." According to the results of the National Census-2078, nearly 46 percent are unemployed in Karnali, which has a population of nearly 1.694 thousand. Out of which, 5 lakh 14 thousand 818 people have gone for foreign employment, according to the census data. In which nearly 86 percent i.e. 4 lakh 42 thousand 743 people are forced to work in different places of India . Gautam, the former mayor of Musikot, says that the Chief Minister's Employment Program, which aims to provide employment to the unemployed for at least 100 days a year, has not yet become effective.

Dhakal, the administrative officer of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers Office, said that the budget has been allocated to provide temporary employment to approximately 16,000 people annually. According to him, nearly 7 billion 500 million has been spent on the Chief Minister's Employment Program till last year. Although there is no definite data about how many people have been employed so far, he claims that compared to the budget spent under this, 45 lakh days of employment has been created. "We have been sending the budget to the local level based on the demands of the wards," he said.

But Ratna Bahadur Khadka, head of Jajarkot's Nalgad Municipality, said that the budget for the employment program did not come as proposed and even if it came only in the month of May/June, the unemployed youth could not be given employment for even one month. He said that there is a problem when the provincial ministers are allocating the schemes of the employment program in a worker-oriented manner, and the returns are being reduced. "The programs proposed by us are not passed, but the real unemployed people here are still deprived of employment when the plans that have gone by stealth are implemented," he said.