Sudurpaschim brought two budgets in the same year

According to the program of the Provincial Assembly meeting, Economic Affairs Minister Bahadur Singh Thapa will withdraw the budget bill submitted by Minister Surendra Bahadur Pal in the Provincial Assembly on June 1. Then they will table the new budget prepared by the current government. After tabling the budget, Minister Thapa is scheduled to present the budget statement for the current financial year 081/82.

The budget that was submitted earlier was not discussed. Therefore, after withdrawing the said budget, the Minister of Economic Affairs will present a new budget statement," Secretary Jhalakram Adhikari said, "We are going to bring the budget to the same figure as the previous government." Earlier, a budget of 31.62 billion was submitted.

Chief Minister Shah said that four bases have been prepared during the preparation of the new budget. Having a plan above 2.5 million, if a budget of less than 2.5 million has to be allocated on the basis of need and justification, financial transfers to the local level in the form of conditional grants along with the action plan, not allocating the budget to individuals, groups, organizations, private firms, companies and cooperatives from the provincial government and implementation by the provincial government Chief Minister Shah says that the basis for any plan to be done through the consumer committee has been set.

Earlier, the UML and civil liberties government under the leadership of Gallagh Bahadur Sodari had stalled in the discussion of the budget presented in the provincial assembly on June 1. After the collapse of the Sodari-led government, the Congress-led UML and civil liberties government was formed on July 21. This government is about to bring a new budget.

Although Chief Minister Shah said that the budget will be made transparent by preparing four bases, the current government is going to include the program of giving budget to the parliamentarians for the plans in the past through a roundabout way. Even though it has not been named Constituency Development Fund (MP Fund) as in the past, the government has prepared to include it in the plan budget by allocating an amount equal to 4 crores to directly elected MPs and 20 crores to proportional MPs. The government has allocated 1 billion 700 million for the scheme recommended by the parliamentarians. "Influential parliamentarians may have more budget plans than that," said a minister.

Stakeholders say that the budget has had an all-round impact in the Far West, where the budget has been in a vacuum for four months. In previous years, the budget came on June 1 and was implemented from July 1. But so far this year, all economic activities have come to a standstill. While the employees have not received their salaries, the daily administrative work of all the offices of the state government is also running on loans.

The parliamentarian himself says that when the budget is delayed by two months, its implementation will be seriously affected. "If the budget had come in June, all preparations would have been made to implement the program before Dasain," says Congress MP Prakash Deuba, who is also a former minister. In the past years, after the Krishi Gyan Kendra gave transportation subsidy, Bajura apples used to reach cities including Dhangadhi. But this year, the apples grown by the farmers of Bajura have not been able to be transported. In the past, the Krishi Gyan Kendra under the state government helped in transportation. But this year, because there was no budget, that facility was not available. That's why the farmers here have been able to send apples," said Bharat Bahadur Rokaya, president of Swamikartik Khapar Rural Municipality of Bajura.