After Mayor Dhanraj Acharya went on a visit to China, the budget of the Pokhara Metropolitan City, which was rushed, has been found to have error after error. Plans for the agricultural sector under the Economic Development Division were left out. While Deputy Mayor Manjudevi Gurung was delivering the budget speech, the staff kept coming to the stage to correct the printouts and correct the scores.

Pokhara has brought a budget of 8 billion 35 million 12 million rupees for the next financial year last Sunday. After the mandatory arrangement that the local level should bring the budget within June 10, the policy and program and the budget were made public on the same day on Sunday.

Mayor Acharya has been criticized for the helchcry in announcing the budget for the year-round development and construction of the metropolis. He has been in Lhasa for two days to participate in the sister city meeting held on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and China.

Budget does not separate capital and current expenditure. The income received from the subsidy and royalty distribution by the province is not included in the budget. It is classified as internal revenue. Deputy Mayor Manjudevi Gurung announced a budget of 8.35 billion 1.2 million rupees. In terms of income, it is estimated that 3.1 billion 18.1 million rupees will be received from the union government's subsidy and 5.23 billion 31 million rupees from internal income. At the same time, the staff of the metropolis corrected the budget figures. After this, she presented another statement that 3.13 billion 1.2 million or 37.49 percent from grants and 5.2 billion 22 million or 61.51 percent from internal income.

The reason for the error in the budget is the lack of preparation and Mayor Acharya's visit to China. The programs to be included for the next financial year should have been entered into the system by the end of May. The plan to be included in the budget was decided by the drafting committee meeting on Sunday morning, the day of bringing the budget.

This is a budget written in two hours. After the draft was passed by the committee, writing began," said Jairam Paudel, head of the financial management division of the metropolis. Due to lack of time, language such as 'income, happened' has been spoiled in the internal program. The budget of the next financial year of the metropolis, which was presented in the city assembly, was made public without being entered into the system. He said that it was not entered in the system due to lack of time and that is why capital and current expenses could not be separated.

The Internal Revenue and Local Revenue Allocation Estimates are recommended by the Revenue Advisory Committee. After that, the total budget limit is determined by adding the grants given by the union and state governments, revenue sharing. When giving a ceiling to the programs that must not be missed in the education and health departments, a ceiling of 82 crores fell towards infrastructure development. The multi-year plan to be paid in the infrastructure development division in the next fiscal year is 1.16 billion. Apart from the subsidy received from the Union, the Revenue Advisory Committee had set a limit of 3.23 billion.

However, since it could not include even the minimum program needed by the metropolis, one and a half billion plans had to be added. The executive meeting on June 6 added the limit. The ceiling of the infrastructure and the program were not decided until 9 am on the day of bringing the budget. Ward presidents also pressed to add one-one crore scheme. The mayor, who was preparing to go on a visit to China, was forced to accept the proposal of the ward president due to the pressure that there would be controversy when presenting the budget and that there would be problems in passing it later. It was agreed to add 60 to 90 million rupees by looking at the situation of the previous multi-year plans in the ward.

The estimate of internal income in the budget of the metropolis is also unnatural. In the budget, an ambitious target of collecting 3 billion 237 million has been set. The Revenue Advisory Committee estimated that 1 billion 500 million would be collected from internal revenue. However, the estimate of internal revenue has been increased to reflect the increase in ceiling in infrastructure and other departments. In the current fiscal year, the Metropolitan Corporation had estimated an internal income of 1.18 billion rupees. Only 95 crores of revenue has been collected till the end of May.

Deputy Mayor Manjudevi Gurung said that there is a problem in the preparation of the budget, which should start from January. She said that although the work of estimating the sources of the budget and determining the limits should be completed by June 5, it was a weakness that it was completed only on the day when the budget was brought. The budget should be formulated and presented to the executive within June 5. However, the ceiling did not come from the infrastructure committee to the drafting committee,' she said, 'the ceiling was only known on the morning of the budget.' She said that she read as the staff told her during the speech after the budget of the agriculture branch was missed. After opening the briefcase, what is in it should be read. They said this number was a mistake,' Deputy Mayor Gurung said. After that, what happened, happened.