Even though the Supreme Court has banned the financial mobilization of MPs in the name of 'Parliamentary Sector Infrastructure Development Programme', the union and state governments are preparing to allocate the budget for MPs next year by using a roundabout way.

Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati, Gandaki, Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces are preparing to give separate budgets to direct and proportional MPs to spend in their constituencies. 

The Koshi state government has allocated a budget of 1 crore for direct MPs and 50 lakhs for proportional members in the current financial year, and lobbying is being done to increase it to 5 crores next year. In the current fiscal year, the Madhesh government had included the amount given to MPs in the Red Book and set a limit of Rs 50 million for direct MPs and Rs 15 million for proportional MPs. A provincial MP said that there is no doubt that it will continue next year as well.

The Madhesh government, which is busy preparing the policy and program and budget for the financial year 2082/083, said that it will bring the policy and program and budget only after the presentation of the federal government's budget. The Madhesh government, which is engaged in the ministerial discussions for the budget, is under pressure to allocate a large sum of money for the MPs in the upcoming budget as well.

The members of the Bagmati State Assembly are creating pressure on the government to raise the constituency fund in the 2082/083 budget. Parliamentarians are creating pressure on the government, which allocated the budget for provincial MPs in a roundabout way in the budget of 2081/082, to allocate the budget 'so as to spend it on the discretion of the members of the provincial assembly'. In the current year, the government had allocated the budget to select and operate the scheme according to the demand of the parliament members of the state . The government mentioned in the budget statement that the MPs will be taken to address the problems and complaints related to the development of voters in their constituencies by creating a comfortable environment.

"In order to establish smooth relations between the members of the Provincial Assembly and the local level, to make inter-level coordination effective and to make development and governance more people-oriented, the necessary funds have been allocated for the implementation of development programs and projects with the direct participation of the members of the Provincial Assembly" in the current year's budget statement. The allocated budget for this program was not determined.

An MP of the province claimed that the government has discussed allocating Rs 5 crore and Rs 3 crore to the directly elected and proportional MPs respectively, and accordingly the program will be included in the budget.

The government of Gandaki is going to cover the plans of the parliamentarians in the budget without specifying a separate title as Constituency Infrastructure Development Program in the next financial year as well as the current year's budget . In 2080/81, Gandaki Province allocated Rs 72 crore at the rate of Rs 2 crore for each constituency under the infrastructure development programme. After the order of the Supreme Court, the amount was stopped from being spent. In the current fiscal year, the province did not allocate a budget under that title, but the plans requested by the parliamentarians were included in the budget. 

According to the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dilliram Rizal, the plans demanded by the parliamentarians ranging from 5 million to 10 million rupees were included in the budget . He said that a separate title will not be designated as Constituency Infrastructure Development Program in the next fiscal year. "At present, there is no discussion about allocating the budget by allocating the amount to the parliamentarians," he said, "the discussion is going on to include the plans chosen by the parliamentarians as much as possible." There is no parliament development fund in Lumbini province yet. However, every year, the government provides funds to the plans recommended by the state assembly members through the budget speech. 

For the current year, the previous government had given the facility of recommending plans at the rate of 25 million to the directly elected provincial assembly members and 20 million to the proportionally elected provincial assembly members . Now the members of the direct side are lobbying to increase it to 50 million . Proportional state assembly members are lobbying saying that they should get direct equality.

In Karnali, from the next financial year, budget construction is being done by allocating only the budget for the projects included in the project bank. In which a district-level project proposal selection recommendation committee has been formed under the leadership of directly elected provincial assembly senior members for integrated project recommendations. In the committee, it is arranged that there will be members of parliament of the state assembly, district coordination chief, deputy chief, local level chief and deputy chief member and chief member secretary of the relevant subject office . Ashoknath Yogi, a member of the Karnali Province Planning Commission, said that according to the procedures related to the proposal and selection process of the

project, an integrated list of the projects recommended by the committee has been prepared and the details have been sent to the relevant ministry by the middle of Chaitra. According to him, if the parliamentarians consider it necessary and appropriate to conduct a project within their constituency, it is mentioned in the procedure that the proposal should be submitted to the commission. 

"There has been a problem in the parliamentarian infrastructure development program, now the parliamentarians will not be able to ask the minister to submit plans," he said, "now the project bank concept has been introduced to maintain project discipline by making the implementing agencies involved and accountable in the plan selection process."

Citizen leader Durga Prasad Sapkota claims that regardless of what the state government claims, the budget has been given to the parliamentarians in a roundabout way. "Now more senior parliamentarians have been made coordinators of the selection committee," he said, "due to which they are sure to give priority to the worker-oriented budget." The government allocated four crores to directly elected MPs and two crores to proportionally elected MPs. According to which the Far West government had unannounced allocation of 1 billion 700 million for the MPs. 

Directly elected MPs submitted plans worth 4 crores and proportional MPs submitted plans worth 20 crores to the office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers. The parliamentarians chose those plans not on the basis of any criteria but on the basis of voluntary and compatibility, being activist-oriented . The plan of choice and recommendation of parliamentarians was included in the annual program (red book). The demand of MPs is to continue this year at least.

This time, the political activity of budget making has not started in Far West. The government has not set a date for submitting policies and programs. According to Information Officer Jagdish Joshi, the principles and priorities of the allocation bill to be submitted by the Minister of Economic Affairs to the Provincial Assembly are being prepared. There is a provision to submit the budget statement to the state assembly 20 days before it comes. The meeting of the Provincial Assembly has been called on the 11th. "Now the budget movement has not started". No discussion has been heard about whether to allocate the budget to the parliamentarians or not," said an official of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

In the name of development, a large part of the province is spent every year through direct/indirect funds of various names including 'Sansad Development Fund'. However, the question of how public-oriented, result-oriented and transparent that expenditure is remains unanswered every year. Experts believe that when development plans are chosen based on personal preferences or political access of parliamentarians, the planning process at the local level is weakened.

Federal parliamentarians have stepped up pressure to revive the 'parliamentary area infrastructure development program' which has been blocked by the Supreme Court. After increasing pressure from the MPs of both the government and the opposition, the government has prepared to allocate the budget to each constituency at a lump sum rate of 21 crore rupees. When the 2080/081 budget was brought, the then Finance Minister Prakasharan Mahat allocated Rs 5 crore to be under each MP. By doing this, 13 billion 75 crores had to be allocated for 275 MPs. According to the current homework, 21 billion will be allocated to each constituency while 34.65 billion will have to be allocated for 165 constituencies.

The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court issued an interim order on 6 August 2080 to stop the 'Parliamentary Sector Infrastructure Development Programme', drawing attention to the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission and the Ministry and the concept of planned development, conflict of interests, good governance and accountability. Even though MPs who are supposed to be in legislative roles are not allowed to be involved in the selection of plans and implementation of the budget, all the MPs are in favor of revitalizing the infrastructure development program of their parliamentary constituency.