At the 18th city council meeting of the metropolis held on Tuesday, Deputy Mayor Chitrasen Adhikari said that out of the 2.57 billion rupees allocated for capital expenditure, only 285.1 million rupees have been spent so far.
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Bharatpur Metropolitan City has only reached 11 percent of its capital expenditure during this period of the current fiscal year.
At the 18th city council meeting of the metropolis held on Tuesday, Deputy Mayor Chitrasen Adhikari said that out of the 2.57 billion 8.897 billion rupees allocated for capital, only 285.1 million 31 thousand rupees have been spent so far.
The metropolis has spent 29 percent of the budget on the current side. He also said that 37 percent progress has been made against the metropolis's target of earning 1.65 billion 1.5 million rupees in the current fiscal year. He informed that 619.22 million rupees have been raised from internal resources so far.
Reading out the supplementary budget statement at the city council meeting, Deputy Mayor Adhikari said that the objectives of the supplementary budget are to reconstruct the damage caused by the Genji movement and to create an environment for service delivery in accordance with the agenda and norms established by the movement.
The administrative building of the metropolis was damaged to the point of being unusable due to arson by demonstrators on Bhadra 24 during the Genji movement. The metropolis held the 18th city council meeting on Tuesday in the assembly hall of the new administrative building under construction.
The city council also discussed the impact of the Genji movement. ‘On Bhadra 23 and 24, many children died on the first day of the movement launched by the Genji generation in favor of lifting the ban on social media and good governance,’ Mayor Renu Dahal said in a statement presented to the city council.
On the second day of the movement on Bhadra 24, Mayor Dahal commented that criminal interest groups also infiltrated the movement. ‘As a result, the country’s important heritage and infrastructure, individual homes, industries, businesses, political party offices, party leaders’ homes, and government and public property were set on fire, vandalized, and looted,’ Dahal’s statement said.
During the Genji protest, all structures in the metropolis were vandalized, office records were burned to ashes, and three buildings were burned beyond repair and operation, Mayor Dahal informed the city council. She also said that 47 vehicles, including small, medium and large ones, were completely damaged by the fire.
Mayor Dahal told the city council that the damage to the metropolis due to vandalism and arson amounted to Rs 490 million. As recommended by the reconstruction needs identification task force formed under the coordination of Deputy Mayor Adhikari for the reconstruction of the damaged structures, the metropolis has collected Rs 171 million by deducting from the ward and city level plans.
Mayor Dahal also informed that 85 percent of the physical progress of the construction of the administrative building of the metropolis, which is the main and pride project of the metropolis, has been completed so far.
This time the city council was held in the assembly hall of the building, which was to be built at a cost of Rs 533.2 million. Mayor Dahal also said that the physical progress of the Gautam Buddha Cricket Stadium is 42 percent.
