Gandaki's budget, minister and secretary's halimuhali, parliament members tore the budget booklet in the rostrum

Dissatisfied with the budget distribution, MPs tore the budget booklet in the rostrum, only 1.55 billion 2.2 million infrastructure projects in Gorkha, the home district of the Chief Minister.

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Gandaki's budget, minister and secretary's halimuhali, parliament members tore the budget booklet in the rostrum

Other Ministers and MPs of Gandaki Province are angry because the Chief Minister, Minister of Economic Affairs and Secretary have behaved so rudely. Chief Minister Surendraraj Pandey, Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. After Takaraj Gurung, Finance Secretary Rajendradev Pandey, who has been active in budget formulation, has also included Manlagdi Yojana in the annual development program.

Complaints from the Ministry of Finance and the Policy and Planning Commission about cutting the plans sent by the Ministry, allocating more money than what was sent, are all the responsibility of the Minister except Finance.

Finance Secretary Pandeko's village in Bhanu Municipality-9 of Tanahun, the Directorate of Tourism, Commerce and Consumer Rights Protection, Infrastructure Development Office, Social Development Office, Tourism and Industry Office, Land and Watershed Management Office, Water Resources and Irrigation Office, Drinking Water and Sanitation Office under the provincial government have plans worth 85 million rupees.

There are only Rs 207 million schemes within Bhanu Municipality. About half of that budget is occupied by the Finance Secretary's home ward. "One employee alone should not invest so much budget in his village." The Minister of Finance and the Vice President of the Planning Commission are also involved in this," said a member of parliament from the ruling party. Setting a ceiling for us, nothing happens to the employees.' 

The finance secretary entered his plans in the provincial ministry budget management system on the night of May 31 (the night before the budget). The Ministry's plan entry system was closed three days before the budget. After that, Chief Minister Surendraraj Pandey launched his plans using the Ministry of Finance and the Policy and Planning Commission. After the Chief Minister, the Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. Takaraj Gurung made plans for his constituency. In the end, Secretary Pandey also included the plan of his village.

Secretary Pandey has allocated the budget for the construction of motorways, footpaths, playgrounds, culverts, irrigation projects, embankments, building constructions, toilets, etc. More than 1 million budget has not been allocated to the playground construction and upgrading plan implemented under the Social Development Office Tanahun . However, in the village of Finance Secretary Pandey, an allocation of 30 lakh rupees has been made for the construction of Chitikhola playground. There is only one plan of 60 lakh rupees to be spent under the

office. This budget titled Karmada Mavi Building construction also belongs to Finance Secretary Pandey's village. A budget of 30 lakh rupees has been allocated to improve the Goretto road in Bageshwari Community Forest to be spent from Land and Watershed Management Office. Finance Secretary Pandey has invested Rs 30 lakh in the name of Goretto road improvement from the office which has no budget of more than Rs 5 lakh for a sensitive matter like slum protection. 

From the 5 ministries that will have the development budget, the ruling party's directly elected MPs were given a ceiling of about 4.5 million rupees, directly elected opposition MPs were given about 40 million rupees, ruling party proportional MPs were given about 2.5 million rupees and opposition proportional MPs were given a ceiling of about 2 million rupees .

The MP got a budget of 40 crores for the scheme across his constituency, and a scheme of 8.5 crores has come up in the secretary's village. Even the plans within the ceiling recommended by the MPs of the ruling party have not been included in the annual development program. The plans of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport and the Ministry of Social Development, Youth and Sports have not only been cut, but the plans that have not been sent by the Ministry have also been added. 

Dissatisfaction with the budgeting has reached the point of tearing the annual development program book . Maoist MP Resham Bahadur Jugjali tore the pamphlet in the rostrum while participating in the ministerial discussion in the state assembly meeting on Monday. Magdi has been treated unfairly for two years. With the permission of the Speaker, I want to tear this book, which is unfair to Myagdi,' after this he tore the book. 

Jugjali said that only 3 million rupees worth of new schemes have been launched in his home district of Myagdi. He expressed his anger by telling the Minister of Finance and Physical Sciences to travel around Myagdi at his personal expense to explain the geography of Myagdi. "Once the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Material Transport from Gurja in Myagdi via Narchang to Darkhola at my personal expense. No cost to the government. I show the geography of Myagdi . Will there be anything for 30 million?' he said.

Jugjali, who is also the former Minister of Physics, proposed to the government not to bring the secretaries within the province to the ministry. Not only that, he sarcastically said that the minister has become innocent in front of the secretary and has to walk behind the staff. Bring Karnali, what does that mean? We had to bring the secretaries of other provinces to prepare the budget,' he said, 'If we become a braver secretary than the minister, we will walk around saying blue coat zindabad!'

In Sunday's meeting, UML MP Bhim Karki satirized Secretary Pandey by saying that their plans had shifted overnight and moved 'around Marsyangdi' . "There is a very good settlement around Marsyangdi River (towards Bhanu municipality)!" Many of our plans have migrated overnight. Is there a risk of budget overflow?' 

Kusum Budha Pun, the chief whip of the opposition party Maoist, commented that the budget of the next financial year has been messed up due to personal interests. He says that the province has not been able to do significant work, it cannot be done and the budget distribution will not be able to reach the destination. "Plans worth lakhs to MPs, plans worth crores to the secretary". Where are we going ? It determines . We are traveling east. We are thinking of the West. Can it find the destination? Can't be done,' she said.

Finance Secretary Pandey claimed that he did not cut anyone's plan, he did not plan to put a plan in his village . He insisted that the schemes in the villages were entered from the relevant ministries and not from the Ministry of Finance. "It is a ridiculous thing that one employee can implement a plan worth 300 million," he said, "Gandaki Finance Secretary, since my house is also in Gandaki province, people from my village and surrounding areas said that the plan has been submitted to the relevant ministry." The plan proposed by the ministry has come.

The provincial government had announced a plan to distribute the budget only after entering the plan in the project bank from the next financial year. However, this time too the budget has been distributed indiscriminately so that there is no shortage of budget for the beneficiaries. Chief Minister Surendraraj Pandey and Vice President of Policy and Planning Commission Dr. Krishnachandra Devkota budgeted 1 billion 55 million 22 million rupees in 154 projects towards infrastructure in the home district of Gorkha.

Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. In Lamjung, the home district of Takaraj Gurung, 82 schemes worth 795.9 million rupees have been planned. The ruling UML party leader Khagraj Adhikari has taken a plan worth 29 million rupees. The Gandaki government had brought a budget of 31 billion 97 crore 99 lakh 99 thousand rupees for the next financial year on June 1.

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