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Finance Minister Urges Local Units to Properly Utilize Development Budget

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Finance Minister Urges Local Units to Properly Utilize Development Budget
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January 10: Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel has urged Nepal Municipal Association and the Federation of National Rural Municipalities to give special emphasis to increase capital expenditure at local units.

The finance minister made such request to the chairman of the Nepal Municipal Association Ashok Kumar Byanju and the chairman of the Federation of National Rural Municipalities Hom Narayan Shrestha during a meeting held at the Ministry of Finance on Sunday (January 9).

The local levels have been unable to spend Rs 126 billion so far in the current fiscal year. Finance Minister Poudel urged the representatives of the local units to spend the budget for further development.

Finance Minister Poudel also urged them to support the families that have been badly affected by Covid-19. He also told the people’s representatives to make the Prime Minister’s Employment Programme more effective.

Finance Minister Poudel also discussed the issue of land-related problems with Byanju and Shrestha in the presence of Shiva Maya Tumbahamfe, minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.

The Commission for Resolving Land Disputes has signed agreements with 193 local units in 4 districts. Minister Tumbahamfe informed that the commission will sign agreements with other local units and initiate its work to resolve land-related disputes. Minister Poudel, meanwhile, said that the land issue will be resolved in coordination between the federal, provincial and local governments.

Minister Tumbahamfe said that all development works take place at the local levels and therefore they should pay special attention towards it.

 

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