Kathmandu Metropolitan Chief Balendra Shah (Balen) is ready to hold a meeting with Chief Administrative Officer Saroj Guragai. After Shah prepared for the meeting, the executive meeting of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, which has not been held for a long time, has been called for Friday.

The executive meeting could not be held since August 8 due to a clash between Metropolitan Chief Shah and Chief Administrative Officer Gurgai. In the discussion held between Chief Shah, Deputy Chief Sunita Dangol and members of the Executive Committee, it was agreed to call the executive meeting. Chief Shah has called a meeting of the Resource Estimation and Delimitation Committee for the policy and program and budget of the next financial year of the metropolis for 11 am.

The committee will determine the internal income received in the metropolis, the amount received from revenue distribution, the projection of grants, loans and other income and the blueprint and budget limit for its balanced distribution. After that, there will be a meeting of the Revenue Consultative Committee headed by the Deputy Chief Coordinator. An executive meeting has been called for 2 p.m.

Chief Shah's press facilitator Surendra Bajgai said that the meeting was called according to the legal procedure. "He (Guragai) talked about sitting/not sitting as chief administrative officer in the meeting," he said. Chief Administrative Officer Guragai said that he will attend the meeting. "Information about the meeting has been received," he said. According to Section 71 of the Local Government Operation Act, 2074, the local level must submit the estimate of revenue and expenditure (budget) for the next fiscal year to the Assembly within June 10 after being approved by the Executive. But due to the controversy in Kathmandu metropolis, policies and programs and budgets have not yet arrived. 

The Chief Administrative Officer Guragai is accused of approving the construction map of the Kathmandu Tower building at the old bus park without environmental testing without completing the process to make it from 12 storeys to 19 storeys. The executive meeting held on February 20, 2071 decided to build a tower with private partnership in the old bus park spread over 23 ropani 5 annas 3 paisa 3 dams located in lot number 1373 located in Kathmandu-28. According to the same decision, a bilateral agreement was signed between Jaleshwar Swachhand Bikoi Builders and Mahanagar on 22 February 2071.

The clash between the local and federal governments is one of the main reasons for the budget not coming in time in Kathmandu. Mayor Shah had commented on the social media about Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's opening of a yet-to-be-completed Dharahara in Baisakh 2078, and the Giribandhu tea garden incident, saying that Prime Minister Oli should not do a new scandal to hide the corruption of 10,000 crores. Analysts say that this is the reason why the distance between Prime Minister Oli and Balen has increased up to the level of the chief administrative officer.