Lumbini Provincial Government's attempt to address the missed plans by passing them in the Provincial Assembly meeting
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The discussion on the upcoming year's budget brought by the Lumbini state government will start from Tuesday (today). Since the Chief Minister and the Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning were dissatisfied with the budget brought by the government, the discussion on the budget brought on June 1 has not yet started.
The Nepali Congress, the main component of power and the party of the Minister of Economic Affairs, has protested against the budget by demanding the rewriting of the budget. Discussions on the budget are about to begin after the government's commitment to pass the missed plans in the provincial assembly and address them in the budget.
The provincial government had brought a budget of 38 billion 91 crores for the coming year. In the budget, 23 billion 47 crore 14 lakh 65 thousand rupees and 12 billion 1 crore 47 lakh 86 thousand rupees have been allocated in the budget. Similarly, 3 billion 42 crore 37 lakh 49 thousand has been allocated for the financial transfer to the local level.
The goal of the budget is to collect revenue of 7 billion 784 million rupees and to mobilize the current year's surplus of 2 billion rupees. After the plans of Lumbini Chief Minister, Ministers and Provincial Assembly members were missed in the budget, the protest of Provincial Assembly members continues. The ruling party, the Congress Provincial Committee, is demanding the rewriting of the budget by making a decision and opposing the opposition party through the Provincial Assembly.
However, the Chief Minister's Office source said that after the government promised to address the plans that were missed by the ruling party ministers and members of the provincial assembly for the discussion starting on Tuesday, they will be passed in the provincial assembly meeting by amending the Economic Act.
In the possible agenda of the meeting of the Provincial Assembly starting at 3 o'clock on Tuesday, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning Dhanendra Karki will submit a proposal to start a theoretical discussion on the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure for the year 2082/2083, discuss it and answer the questions raised during the discussion.
Similarly, in the second agenda, Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning Karki will present the appropriation bill for the year 2082/083 in the assembly, said the secretary of the provincial assembly, Durbhab Kumar Pun Magar. According to sources, the government has prepared a list and budget of repeated schemes in the budget through all the ministries. From that, about 260 million has been found and some amount has been deducted from big multi-year or prestigious projects and included in the missing plans of the members of the provincial assembly.
However, the members of the provincial assembly sought legal ease for it and for legal ease, it was agreed to include the exempted plan along with the budget from the meeting of the provincial assembly. "Right now, the discussion on the budget is about to start," the source said, "The government is making a list of repeated plans and their budgets, budgets that can be matched with multi-year or Gaurav projects, and missing plans." The appropriate way to address it is being sought.'
The source also said that the government is committed to pass the missed plans by revising the Economic Act through the Provincial Assembly meeting and to provide the budget for those plans by transferring funds after the second quarter. The main opposition party in the provincial assembly, CPN-Maoist Center, is going to oppose the budget. Maoist chief whip Indrajit Tharu said that the opposition party will continue to oppose the budget.
"The government has the majority, the budget will be passed if the parliamentarians of the ruling party agree," he said, "However, what is being tried to be passed by adopting the method is just a drama and a game of deception. We have not seen any legal provision that the exemption plan will be addressed from this budget."
