The Koshi state government has prepared to distribute a budget of around 2 billion rupees to the MPs under various schemes in the coming financial year 2082/83. After Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki asked for a plan, MPs are busy submitting plans for their areas.

Directly elected MPs asked for 5 crores and proportional MPs asked for 20 crores to fulfill their election promises. But the government is ready to give schemes up to 25 million to direct and 15 million to proportional MPs. More than 44,000 schemes have been registered in the scheme bank. Mimamansh Adhikari, Secretary of the Planning Commission, said that more plans are coming. According to him, the scheme will be selected only from the scheme bank. But parliamentarians and local level officials have been active in pushing forward their small plans. 

MPs are dissatisfied with the budget allocation criteria. In the last meeting of the Finance Committee, MP Dolma Tamang complained that the standards set by the government could not cover the needs of all sectors. Economic Affairs and Planning Minister Ram Bahadur Magar has asked the parliamentarians to rise above the municipality level and come up with long-term thinking plans. But MPs are insisting on small schemes to fulfill election promises. There are 56 directly elected and 37 proportional MPs in Koshi State Assembly out of 93. 

In Gandaki, more than 6,000 plans have been requested in the ministry of physical infrastructure development and transport system of Gandaki province. With such a large number of plans, the minister and the staff of the secretariat are worried that they will be scolded when the budget comes. The 'ceiling' of the next fiscal year's budget has decreased by 3 billion from the current fiscal year, so that budget allocation is not possible for all the requested plans. 

State MPs are submitting the list of plans of their constituencies to the Ministry of Development. The ministry has not given the 'ceiling' of the scheme to the MPs. We have submitted the list. But it is not decided how many plans will be needed," said a member of Parliament. As the government had to take a vote of confidence while bringing the budget for the current financial year, the selection of the scheme was chaotic. After receiving the vote of confidence, they were asked to prioritize the list of plans submitted to the ministry. Then the budget was kept in that plan. Around 30 million were planned for one MP by all the ministries. 

Maoist MP Damayanti Ruchal comments that the provincial government is stalling the plan by allocating piecemeal budget. She says that the provincial government cannot give results when allocating the budget without looking at the level of work that can be done by the union and the local level. She also alleged that the state government's practice in budget allocation was monarchical and multi-party. "There can never be a balanced development by scattering like Kanika. Let the government upgrade itself,” she said. He suggested to the government to put a plan in the project bank and select it on the basis of priority. 

The state government issued project bank procedures last February. In the procedure, it is said that plans costing more than 5 million must be entered in the project bank and selected from there. Since there are more people submitting plans in the Ministry than in the Policy and Planning Commission, it seems that the project bank will be in name only. Policy and Planning Commission Vice-Chairman Krishna Chandra Devkota claims that even if the plan is submitted to the ministry, multi-year, detailed project report (DPR) and plan projects above 50 lakh rupees will be selected from the bank. "We enter all multi-year plans and big plans in the project bank," he said, "many plans for physical infrastructure and irrigation have come. That's where the projects that have been entered and the resources are assured go.'