The budget of Lumbini province for the next financial year 2082/083 has been passed by majority. In the seventeenth meeting of the sixth session of the Provincial Assembly on Wednesday, Finance and Planning Minister Dhanendra Karki submitted a proposal to pass the bill to implement the finance proposal.

Speaker Tularam Gharti presented the bill to implement the financial proposal presented by Minister Karki. Speaker Gharti announced that the next year's budget has been passed by a majority vote after the majority vote of the state assembly. 11 provincial assembly members of the main opposition party Maoist voted against the budget. The provincial assembly members of JSP, LOSPA, Janamorcha and CPN-1 remained silent.

Minister Karki brought a budget of 38 billion 91 crores for the coming year on June 1. In the budget, 23 billion 47 million 14 million 65 thousand and 12 billion 147 million 86 thousand have been allocated in the budget. Similarly, an amount of 3.42 billion 37 lakh 49 thousand has been allocated for the financial transfer to the local level. The target of the budget was to collect revenue of 7.78 billion 4 lakh rupees and mobilize 2 billion rupees for the current year. 

Dissatisfaction grew because the important plans of the Chief Minister, Minister of Economic Affairs and members of the Provincial Assembly were missing in the budget. The discussion on the budget started on Tuesday after Chief Minister Chetnarayan Acharya, Congress Parliamentary Party leader Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary and the Minister of Economic Affairs agreed to pass the missing plan in the state assembly meeting and manage the budget. After holding four meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the budget, the budget was passed by majority on Wednesday. 

In the 16th meeting of the sixth session of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly on Wednesday, a group discussion was held on various topics of the budget for the financial year 2082/083. In the meeting which started at 12 noon, 26 provincial assembly members participated in the discussion on the budget. Although the opposition made critical comments on the budget, the MPs of the ruling party defended the budget. 

The ruling party MPs claimed that the budget prioritized overall and balanced development, and that this year's budget was better than the previous year, while the opposition party leaders criticized the ministerial-centric budget.

Bhoj Prasad Shrestha, Tulsi Prasad Chaudhary, Chandrakesh Gupta, Dhanlakshmi Shrestha, Ratna Bahadur Khatri, Vishwaprem Pathak, Nima Giri, Ramjiprasad Ghimire, Indrajit Tharu, Raju Shrestha, Basanti Neupane, Bhandarilal Ahir, Sushila Wadi, Wasiuddin Khan, Durga Prasad, Minakumari Shrestha, Santosh Kumar Pandey, Amvika Kafle, Bhagwati Adhikari, Tara Chaudhary Thapa, Arjun Kumar KC, Vaijnath Kalwar, Janaki Neupane, Kanaiya Bania, Dilliraj Bhusal, Dipendra Pun participated in the budget discussion.

The opposition party raised the issue of non-responsive budget, which could not be addressed by the budget according to the priorities of policies and programs. The members of the ruling party have emphasized that the government has prioritized making the province self-reliant and that improvements can be made by paying attention to the implementation of the budget. Spokesperson of the government and Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Dinesh Panthi said that the budget was passed by focusing on the topics of various ministries and related agencies under the "Bill made to make arrangements regarding the allocation and spending of some funds from the Provincial Reserve Fund for the services and work of the financial year 2082/083".