All 10 local levels of Dang have presented their budgets for the fiscal year 2083/84. Ghorahi and Tulsipur sub-metropolitan cities made their budgets public on Monday and Lamahi Municipality on Tuesday. Seven other rural municipalities presented their budgets on Wednesday.

Ghorahi sub-metropolitan city has proposed a budget of Rs 2.37 billion. Deputy Chief Humakumari DC said that Rs 1.35 billion is for current expenditure and Rs 1.24 billion is for capital expenditure.

Ghorahi has focused its budget on agriculture, education, health and infrastructure as in previous years. Rs 2.15 billion has been allocated for deep boring to increase agricultural production and productivity by expanding irrigation in arable land. 35.9 million has been allocated for the agricultural promotion sector.

1.7 million has been allocated for the textbook of Tharu language for grades 1 to 3, the textbook of Magar language for grade 1 and the textbook of Hamro Ghorahi for local subjects from grades 1 to 8. 16 million rupees have been allocated for scholarships to one boy and one girl from a community school for studying medicine and engineering by scoring excellent marks in the SEE examination.

Tulsipur has made public a budget of 2.44 billion 95 million 91 thousand rupees. Tulsipur Municipality Deputy Mayor Syani Chaudhary said that priority has been given to agriculture, education, health, infrastructure development, drinking water, sports and employment creation in the budget.

1.39 billion 60 million 21 thousand rupees, or 56 percent, have been allocated for current and 1.1 billion 38 million 28 thousand rupees, or 42.35 percent, have been allocated for capital. Tulsipur has allocated Rs 50 lakh for the construction of a sky bridge.

Rs 20 million has been allocated for the construction of embankments to protect agricultural land and Rs 60 lakh for the operation of agricultural ambulances. Rs 30 million has been allocated for improving the education sector. Rs 10 million has been allocated for the construction of health infrastructure. Rs 50 million has been allocated for free treatment for the poor and chronically ill. Rs 20 million has been allocated for road repair and upgrading. Rs 10 million has been allocated for drinking water and sanitation.

Similarly, Lamahi Municipality has made public a budget of Rs 981.37 million. Deputy Mayor Laxmi Yogi said that the budget has been brought with priority to programs to ensure the rights of education, health, agriculture, infrastructure development, social security, environmental protection and landless citizens.

Rs 319 million 33 thousand has been allocated for infrastructure development. Similarly, Rs 189 million 33 thousand has been allocated for public services and capacity development, Rs 122 million 27 million 93 thousand for social development, Rs 59 million 267 thousand for economic development and Rs 11 million 60 thousand for disaster management.

The municipality has announced a 10 percent increase in the salaries of municipal grant teachers, child development facilitators, school employees and school assistants. Competitive scholarships will be provided to economically weak, talented and talented students for studying MBBS, engineering, agriculture and other technical subjects.