Purvkhola rural municipality of Palpa is going to give full tax exemption to houses with thatched roofs. The completed 17th Village Assembly of the rural municipality has decided to give a tax exemption to the families who have not yet installed tin roofs in the rural municipality. They are going to be given a tax discount under the integrated property tax collected by the rural municipality.

Village Chairman Nun Bahadur Thapa said that there are still 153 families with thatched roofs in the village. There are 51 houses in Ward No. 1 Siluwa and 1 hundred and 2 houses in Jalpa 2. Among the 6 wards of the rural municipality, there are no houses with thatched roofs in Ward No. 3 Ringnerah, 4 Devinagar, 5 Birkot and No. 6 Heklang.

Binod Nepal, planning branch officer of the rural municipality said that this data has been sent to the federal project implementation unit, Bhairahawa.

Since last year's data, this year some people have installed tin roofs themselves . In the past years, the federal government had a program to get rid of thatched roofs . Poorkhola rural municipality also requested a budget under special grant.  Chairman Thapa said that

may not be the number one priority and the budget may not have been allocated. Since a large budget is needed, the rural municipality has not allocated the budget itself . The federal government generally provides a subsidy of 50,000 per house.

The rural municipality has not put it in its program because it will cost at least 750,000. "Due to budget limitations, the grant was not allocated from our budget," he said, "It is because of the special grant coming from the federal government or the state".

"Federal and provincial budgets have been given low priority," he said, "will be prioritized in the coming days." The completed meeting of the rural municipality has set a fee of 10,000 for tobacco business registration/renewal. Thapa said that the arrangement of the previous year has been continued with partial changes in other taxes, duties and fees. The coordinators of economic, social, physical infrastructure, good governance, judicial monitoring, public accounting committee submitted the progress report.

The convention unanimously passed the budget of 468.3 million 44 thousand 995 rupees for the financial year 2082/83. Spokesperson Mehrsinh Thapa said that four meetings were held in the session which started from June 8. In the session, the Economic Procedure and Financial Responsibility Management Bill, Child Protection Policy, Policy and Program, Appropriation Bill have been passed.

Under the federal supplementary budget, 13.5 million rupees have been allocated for the Khalluk-Bhangjang-Birta road upgradation plan, under the state supplementary budget, 90 million rupees have been allocated for the Serkabas-Heklang road, and 60 million rupees have been allocated for the upgradation of the Hatia Janmarg Mavi road, according to Bhagirathi Bhattarai, vice chairman of the village.

73 lakh rupees have been allocated for school ICT management from the federal special budget. 1.8 million rupees have been allocated to Jalpa 2 and Birkot 5 for the establishment and strengthening of orange fruit orchards from the provincial special budget. Information officer Mohan Dhakal said that 7 million budget has been allocated for the improvement of the health sector. In the

meeting, professional farmers, excellent consumer committees and exemplary performance employees have been honored . In the session, Santosh Kumar Barghare, Chairman of Consumer Committee and Sunita Dhenga, Secretary of Lower Lemdhem Motorway Upgradation Scheme, who have performed best among the schemes worth more than 5 lakhs, have been awarded .