Khelraj Pandey, the head of Butwal sub-metropolitan city, said that the most beautiful aspect of Butwal sub-metropolitan city is the participation of people in social programs from development programs.

Speaking at the second session of the sub-metropolitan development program organized by Kantipur Media Group in Bhairahawa on Wednesday, he said that many programs in Butwal have been done in partnership. 

"Our old tradition also depends on partnership, the old Batauli and the newly developing places are somewhat less," he said, "We have allocated the budget with 70 percent public participation and 30 percent local government participation as 'first come first service'."

He says that a lot of work has been done due to the participation of people in the development of physical infrastructure. "Now, when the province says to tender more than 500,000, that participation is about to drop to zero," he said.

In a different context, he told that about 7,000 Kaligarhs in West Bengal, India, are in Butwal. "There are a large number of workers, about 10,000 who do welding work, 15,000 who do furniture work, they are both businessmen and laborers," he said. "We have trained 100 people on jewelry making, about 100% of them are employed," he said, "now billions of agricultural resources come from India, we talked about the upgrading of arans, we gave 500,000 for one aran and budgeted the program to upgrade 5 arans a year, now the upgrading of those arans has started." 

He said that the work of agricultural tools is also done from there. "We put the buffalo paddy distribution program for the farmers in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, this has sent a good message," he said, "Yesterday we looked at whether physical infrastructure is our only development, but the development of human resources is a bigger thing." 

Butwal, which has been developed as a commercial center since ancient times, has been developing as a business and transportation hub since 2026 after the construction of the East-West Highway and the North-South Highway. "After that, it developed as an industrial area, now Butwal has made a leap in education and health, there are 91 thousand students in Butwal," he said, "Butwal has established itself as a model school across the country in government schools." "That's why Butwal has a proud position in education. Last year, Butwal allocated 26 percent of its total budget for education. Yesterday, there was talk of merging small schools with big schools," he said. He said that even though he did not come to ask for a budget for upgrading and how to connect all the schools with computers and IT, they had to manage the budget to make the schools equipped with technology. "We have continued this matter, by doing this the number of students in the schools of the community is increasing, we have started the study of nursing and HA in Butwal last year," he said, "Education and health are very, very high priorities in Butwal, the development of education and health in Butwal is not only for Butwal." For all regions of the country.'