The budget expenditure of the Karnali provincial government is the lowest ever . With only three months left for the end of the fiscal year, the Karnali government has barely been able to spend 24 percent of the budget . According to the Provincial Treasury Controller's Office, only 36.10 percent of the budget has been spent on current and 17.16 percent on capital expenditure till mid-Chait. Due to lack of budget expenditure, service delivery and development work are slow, while the Karnali government's rhythm has deteriorated . 

Last year, the Karnali government had spent almost 39 percent during the same period . In the fiscal year 2080/81, 40 percent of the budget had been spent by mid-Chait. This year, the Karnali government has been able to start work on only 1,100 of the nearly 3,000 plans allocated by the budget. This year, the budget of 32.99 billion 66.55 million rupees has been spent, said Provincial Accounts Controller Ratna Prasad Subedi. 'So far, the expenditure on development and construction is very low, a lot of the budget has been spent on salaries and allowances,' he said. 'Only a few small projects have been paid, big projects have not even started.' According to him, there is still 25.15 billion rupees in the provincial government's account.

The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Urban Development, which has the largest development budget, has implemented only about 40 percent of the plans. According to the ministry's spokesperson Ramesh Subedi, there are 743 plans this year. Of these, about 500 are multi-year plans. He informed that about 100 new plans have all gone through the contracting process. Of the 11.1 billion rupees budget in the ministry, only 19.23 percent has been spent so far. Similarly, the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy Development, which has about 1,300 projects, has barely been able to spend only 24.60 percent of the budget. This ministry has implemented only about 500 projects. The ministry has received a budget of Rs 3.83 billion this year.

The Karnali government's income is also not as expected this year. This year, it has been able to earn only Rs 483.95 million in nine months, against a revenue collection target of Rs 967.4 million. The government, which collected Rs 659.4 million in revenue against a target of Rs 834.4 million last year, is finding it difficult to meet the target this year as well, said Khamba Prasad Thani, former deputy secretary to the government of Nepal. ‘In previous years, the target was low and could not be met, but this year the target has been increased by Rs 110 million,’ he said. ‘Neither the tax base has increased, nor has there been a suitable mechanism for tax collection. It has become the destiny of a government that can never meet the target.’

The Karnali Provincial Public Service Commission has been without a leader for almost one and a half years due to the failure to agree on a share-sharing agreement between the ruling UML and the Nepali Congress in the Karnali government. The commission has been without a chairman since Poush 3 last year. The commission has not issued any advertisement since Shrawan of the current fiscal year. The commission issued its last advertisement on Asad 23.

The commission’s information officer Chandrabir Shahi said that there has been no advertisement since the advertisement for promotions through seniority and performance evaluation, internal inter-service competition, and open and inclusive competitive examination for the assistant level of the provincial civil service and local service at the end of the last fiscal year. According to him, the commission became leaderless after the then chairman Ram Prasad Upadhyay retired due to the age limit of 65. The post of chairman of the commission has been vacant for a long time, and the commission has been facing policy problems, said Shahi, the information officer of the commission. ‘The posts have not been filled as per the annual work plan,’ he said, ‘There is also a problem in making various policy decisions.’

On February 20, 2077, Basanti Kumari Singh (Shahi) and Bhakta Bahadur Khadka were appointed as members along with Chairman Upadhyay. Although the term of office of the chairman of the commission is 6 years, Upadhyay retired after four years due to the age limit, while Khadka, who was appointed with him, has also retired. Currently, member Singh Shahi is holding the responsibility of the acting chairman. She is the wife of Congress parliamentary party leader and former Chief Minister Jeevan Bahadur Shahi. Bhakta Bahadur Dhakal is a member of the commission.

Due to the division of shares, the Karnali Provincial Sports Development Council was also without a leader for almost a year. But after widespread criticism that various administrative and necessary preparatory work had been left behind due to the lack of formation of the council despite being the host province of the 10th National Games, the council received leadership including member secretary Rabindra Chand on Chaitra 11.

Due to the confusion of the Karnali government, ambitious programs such as Chief Minister's Employment, Daughter Bank Account, Karnali Ujjaya, Integrated Settlement Development, and Hi-tech Nursery have been left behind. Former Dean of Midwestern University Pitambar Dhakal said that some programs have not been successful even after the federal government's 'duplication'. ‘There is neither an appropriate structure for program implementation nor an effective monitoring mechanism, and there is a lack of staff from the very beginning,’ he said. ‘When programs are introduced for cheap popularity without prior preparation, questions have started to be raised on the provincial government itself.’

The Karnali government had formed a four-member high-level committee under the coordination of former secretary Laxman Aryal on April 20 for administrative restructuring, citing the inability to meet the expenses. After studying for almost two months, the committee submitted a report to the government on July 20 with recommendations including reducing the number of 8 ministries to 6, merging 133 offices to 71, and reducing the number of employees from about 2,900 to 2,500. Accordingly, the Karnali government’s meeting on November 20 decided to abolish the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law and abolish the Office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers. But other restructuring works have been stopped. The government has formed a four-member Implementation and Facilitation Committee under the coordination of Laxmi Kumar BK, Secretary of the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, to implement the report. But the committee has been inactive lately.

CPN-UML parliamentary party leader Yamalal Kandel became the Chief Minister on Chaitra 12, 2080 with the support of the then CPN-Maoist Center. He left the former Maoist government about three months later. The Nepali Congress has been supporting him since Asad 12, 2081. In the Karnali government, the UML currently leads the Chief Minister, along with two other ministries, and the Congress leads four ministries.

The Karnali Parliament meeting is currently closed. The Council of Ministers meeting on Tuesday recommended convening the eighth session of the Karnali Provincial Assembly from Baisakh 28. Accordingly, Province Chief Yagyaraj Joshi has called a meeting to be held on Baisakh 28 at 3 pm. Advocate Durga Prasad Sapkota says that parliament meetings should also be held regularly to make the government's work effective. 'Parliament meetings should also be held regularly to monitor the government's work,' he said, 'which helps make the government's work regular, responsible and accountable.'