It has been 7 years since the two-thirds majority of the Sudurpaschim Provincial Assembly designated the permanent capital. In the first term of the state assembly, it was decided to build the permanent capital of Far West in Godavari Municipality-4, Teghri Godavari of Kailali in the meeting held on 075 Oct 12th. But the decision is pending. Neither the current government nor the provincial assembly has reconsidered it.

Since the appointment of the temporary capital, the work has been carried out from the temporary structures in Dhangadhi. After Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah said that he was going to reconsider about the permanent capital a year and a half ago, he has not been able to proceed with a concrete process towards it.

On the other hand, the government is spending crores of rupees in the name of repairing the temporary structure of the state ministry in Dhangadhi. According to the details of the State Controller of Accounts Office, the government has spent 275 million 53 million 51 thousand in the period of 6 years from the financial year 075/76 to 080/81. 102 million has been spent in the financial year 076/77.

In the financial year 081/82, the expenditure details of the government and the provincial ministries have not been received. In that year, the government allocated 49.99 million 35 thousand. In the budget of the current financial year, the highest budget of 128 million has been allocated so far.

The money has been spent on repairing the offices of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Physical Infrastructure Development, Industry, Tourism, Forestry and Environment, Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Social Development, Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Accounts, Office of the Chief Attorney and temporary offices of the Public Service Commission.

It is recorded that the government has spent 229 million 22 thousand for the maintenance of the office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers in a period of 6 years. The details of the amount allocated in the last financial year 081/82 have not been received. However, it is estimated that an amount of more than three crores may have been spent," said an official of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, "If the permanent capital had been determined and the construction process of the permanent structure could have started on time, the annual budget would not have been spent like this." In 2007, a case was filed in the Supreme Court against the decision to place the capital in Godavari because the forest area of Godavari was destroyed. Manish Kumar Shrestha and Devi Kumari Joshi had filed a case in the Supreme Court saying that it was decided to establish the provincial capital through biological means.

Thekendra Prasad Joshi, chief attorney of the state government, said that the case is still under consideration. According to him, after the preliminary arguments of both parties, the court gave an interim order not to stop the implementation of the decision. Since then, the hearing has been moving since there was no further debate or decision on this issue.

Chief Minister Shah is trying to find an alternative to Godavari with the central leadership of Congress, UML and Maoist Center after the implementation of permanent capital at Godavari. He said that homework is being done to build a permanent capital in Dhangadhi as an alternative. Sources close to the Chief Minister have said that efforts are being made to take the proposal of reshuffle of the capital to the Provincial Assembly by taking all the three parties, Congress, UML and Maoist, for that purpose. A two-thirds vote is required to decide on the capital. The civil rights party has withdrawn its support. Only two-thirds of the votes of Congress and UML, which are in the government, are not enough.

The government is currently looking for an option to construct the provincial ministry and other structures on the 13 bigha area of land that extends from the office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers to the water supply office by designating Dhangadhi as the permanent capital.

After the Provincial Assembly designated the Godavari capital, the Far West Province government at that time sent a letter to the Ministry of Forestry and the Prime Minister's Office in the month of January 075 asking for the right of occupancy of 444 bighas of Godavari area, which was designated as the permanent capital of the province, along with the measurements and maps.

While reminding that the jurisdiction to designate the capital lies with the Provincial Assembly, the provincial government wrote to the Ministry of Forestry to use only the necessary land out of 444 bighas and protect the rest of the forest. But the proposal of the state government was ignored by the union government. As the federal government did not make any decision about the right of occupancy, the implementation process could not proceed. "Because the Ministry of Forests did not grant usufructuary rights, the implementation could not proceed," said the then Chief Advocate Kulananda Upadhyay, "At that time, the state government made many efforts at various levels to obtain usufructuary rights."