6 billion allocated in Far-West for the month of June

Dhangadhi: The Far-Western Provincial Government had set a budget of Rs 6.28 billion as of July.

It has been revealed that the budget allocated by various ministries through subordinate bodies has been distributed arbitrarily at the end of the fiscal year. Despite the provision of giving authority by distributing the budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, delays have been seen in the interest of ministers and parliamentarians.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning had allocated Rs 4.51 billion, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment Rs 113.9 million, the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Rs 109.2 million, and the Ministry of Social Development Rs 64.74 million.

There is a legal provision that the budget should give authority to the subordinate bodies to implement various programs within the first four months of the fiscal year. But it is seen that the ministries of the states have run various programs to complete the budget in June. The Far-Western Provincial Government has spent most of the budget of over Rs 6 billion in June. Information Officer at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, Bharat Shrestha, said that it was not the end of the fiscal year but a few months late. The budget sent by the Ministry of Finance but kept in a lump sum by the Ministries without skipping the program is called Avanda Budget.

The Ministry of Far West has been keeping such a budget till July. In June, it is being spent arbitrarily to save the cadres. Minister for Social Development Lal Bahadur Khadka says that he has not understood this issue well.

"I came at the last hour," he said. "I understand this very well." "When the working procedure of the program was passed by the council of ministers, it was already November, December," he said. So some of the budgets were in the ministry.

' Article 21 of the Financial Procedure and Financial Accountability Act 2076 stipulates that the amount to be distributed among the various offices must be allocated by the Accounting Officer within the first four months of the Fiscal Year. The ministries of the states are repeating the budget in June of each year, flouting the procedure. "It is not possible to keep the budget and implement it in the end," said Basudev Joshi, chief of the state treasury and account control office.

"Such a budget should be reimbursed within the second quarter."