As of Friday, ministries are adding new plans and budget ceilings, but the Finance Ministry has yet to finalize the size of the budget
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The Lumbini state government, which has been continuously bringing in a deficit budget, has prepared to bring in a deficit budget in the next financial year as well. The government had brought a budget of 38.97 billion for the current financial year.
The government is preparing to bring a budget of around 38 billion for the next fiscal year. As the government is increasing the ceiling of the budget for the ministry even till Friday, the number of the budget has not been finalized.
There is a constitutional arrangement to bring the budget for the coming year on Sunday. However, according to the source, the size of the budget and big projects have not been finalized even till Saturday morning. After constant pressure from the ministers, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has sent a new budget ceiling to some ministries on Friday evening. It has refuted the statement of the Chief Minister Chetnarayan Acharya who has been making public that the government will not bring a deficit budget and bring a budget of around 32 billion.
Chief Minister Acharya was saying that he would bring a budget not exceeding 32 billion even a week ago. According to this, the Ministry of Finance sent a ceiling of 32 billion to the ministers 15 days ago. However, after sending a new ceiling again on Friday, the government ministers have been busy planning and adding funds since Friday night.
Chief Minister Acharya, former Chief Minister and leader of the ruling parliamentary party Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary and State Physical Infrastructure Development Minister Bhumishwar Dhakal sat in discussion at the Chief Minister's residence since Saturday morning to finalize the budget. However, they have woken up to decide by 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The ministers of the government are lobbying to increase the size of the budget due to the increased payment of state pride projects and multi-year plans. The most responsibility is in physical infrastructure, drinking water and urban development and energy in water resources. That is why the pressure on the ministers has increased.
Apart from that, the state government has prepared a road master plan this year. There are 15 provincial main roads and 594 provincial road plans. These roads are determined by reducing the 3400 roads of the province. At least 50 percent of them have to be allocated a large budget for roads, so the government's budget is sure to increase.
Provincial Planning Commission Vice President Dr. Dilliraj Aryal said that the size of the next year's budget will increase due to the responsibility of old, multi-year and prestigious projects initiated by the state government. According to him, the size of the budget is going to increase more than what the government has prepared due to the binding obligations of federal supplemental, local level supplemental and special subsidy.
For the coming year, the federal government has sent 10 big plans for the next year. 5 of them are serial and 5 are new . In the new plan, the budget will go a lot . "Apart from that, the administrative building of the state capital Deukhuri and the Lumbini Regional Hospital, which are being worked on under the state pride project, also need to be allocated budget by year," he said.
The work of 10 administrative buildings being constructed by the government in Deukhuri is intense. Likewise, the work on the building of Lumbini Provincial Hospital has also progressed. The provincial government has said that work is being done to bring the administrative building into use from next year and for that, more than one and a half billion will be spent. Similarly, there is an obligation to allocate a minimum amount of 2 billion for the provincial hospitals in the coming year.
Government spokesperson Dinesh Panthi said that the budget is being prepared by addressing both the obligations and demands of the government and the size will be around the current year.
