Budget
cut hampers treatment of moderately acute malnourished
children : The cuts in the budget for healthcare
programmes have put Nepal’s ambition to meet the SDGs on
the line, by Arjun Poudel (kp 12/09/2023)
Finance
Ministry issues 81-point guideline for budget
implementation (kh 20/07/2023)
A
disappointing fiscal year (ae 18/07/2023)
Budget
deficit recorded around Rs 400 in the FY 2022/23, by
Rajesh Khanal (rep 18/07/2023)
Govt
spends around 80 percent of annual budget in 2022/23
(kh 27/07/2023)
Govt
made massive budget transfers in the last month of
current FY, breaching basic norm of financial discipline
(rep 08/07/2023)
Budget
cut set to hit crucial nutrition programmes :
Nutritionists warn the country cannot achieve nutrition
targets by cutting investments on Outpatient Therapeutic
Care and nutrition rehab centres, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 23/06/2023)
Most
tunnel road projects get budget to satisfy politicians’
whims, officials say : Majority of about two dozen
tunnels proposed around the country are on drawing board,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/06/2023)
Discontent
with budget rife, lawmakers seek a revision : Ruling
parties are also unhappy with disproportionate
allocations to some districts at the expense of others
(kp 21/06/2023)
Budget
allocated to Madhes is less than revenue from there: Dr.
CK Raut (kh 16/06/2023)
Stagnation
amid uncertainty : The budget is expected to hinder
business growth and contract demand, by Pradeep
Yadav (kp 16/06/2023)
Budget
‘mocks’ federalism, by Dilip Paudel (rep 16/06/2023)
Holding
the purse strings : It is ludicrous that projects worth
Rs1,000 have been sent to the sub-national levels,
by Khim Lal Devkota (kp (14/06/2023)
Leaders
of ruling parties criticise new budget : They say that
major budgetary allocations under physical
infrastructure ministry to Gorkha, Dadeldhura and
Nuwakot districts are unfair to other districts (kp
10/06/2023)
Mahat
denies involvement of any unauthorised person in the
budget making process : Opposition lawmakers had sought
clarification from the finance minister regarding the
involvement of a retired finance ministry staff member
in the budget-making process (kp 07/06/2023)
A
budget amid economic slowdown : Achieving revenue target
to meet expenditure needs will continue to be
challenging, by Chandan Sapkota (kp 06/06/2023)
Budget
2023: Will It Lift Nepal’s Descending Economy?, by
Hari Prasad Shrestha (rep 05/06/2023)
Budget
for transmission lines cut despite high capacity power
line being a top priority : The government’s budget says
both domestic and cross-border power lines are
priorities, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 31/05/2023)
Lofty
dreams in hard times : The finance minister has promised
so much without spelling out how he intends to keep
those promises (kp 31/05/2023) [This
is typical of this extremely competent generation of
politicians!], ‘Implementing
the budget is challenging’ (rep 31/05/2023), FinMin
defends announcements in the budget (ae 31/05/2023)
Controversial
pork barrel fund revived after two years :
Former member of planning body terms the budget
anti-federalis, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
30/05/2023), MPs
can only recommend projects in CDF – Finance
Minister Mahat (kh 30/05/2023) [Nevertheless,
this opens up opportunities for only directly
elected MPs to profile themselves with a view to
future elections, which is a form of
corruption. This system must be abolished
once and for all!]
Budget
ignored demands of education sector: NNTA
(kh 30/05/2023))
Health
ministry surprised as government allocates
double the anticipated budget : Now health
officials might need to revise their plans as
they had based their calculations on the Rs41
billion limit (kp 30/05/2023), Budget
of urban development ministry doubled in FY
2023/24 (rep 30/05/2023)
Budget
ups luxury tax on high-end goods, services :
Five-star hotel services, foreign travel,
precious metals, alcoholic products will be more
expensive, by Krishana Prasain (kp
30/05/2023)
Government
unveils annual budget of Rs 1751.31 billion : The budget
unveiled for the next fiscal year is lower than the
budget unveiled for the current fiscal year, but it
exceeds the revised budget of Rs 1549 billion for the
current fiscal year (nlt 29/05/2023), Nepal
unveils Rs1.75 trillion financial plan for fiscal
2023-24 : The government has targeted a growth rate of 6
percent and aims to keep inflation within 6.5 percent,
by Sangam Prasain and Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
30/05/2023), Major
highlights of budget for fiscal year 2023/24 (rep
30/05/2023), FinMin
bid to maintain fiscal prudence with Rs 1,751.31bn
budget (ae 30/05/2023)
MoF
In Need Of Burden Sharing, by Modnath Dhakal (rn
27/05/2023)
What
the government should prioritize in the budget for
upcoming fiscal year : The country may fall into crisis
if the Ministry of Finance and the Rastra Bank move
ahead independently in a traditional way in the present
situation, by Bishwambher Pyakuryal (nlt 22/05/2023)
Getting
fiscal priorities right : It is hard to be elated by
looking at the government’s programmes for the upcoming
fiscal year, by Bhoj Raj Poudel (kp 18/05/2023)
National
budget for new fiscal year may slash allocation for
infrastructure sector : Budget ceiling for the
infrastructure ministry has been lowered as the
government struggles to generate resources, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/05/2023)
Bring
federalism-centric budget : Allocating a bigger budget
or more programmes to specific constituencies does not
guarantee electoral success, by Khim Lal Devkota (kp
17/05/2023)
Dismal
Capital Expenditure: Govt yet to spend 60 percent of
capital budget (ae 16/05/2023)
Women,
children and senior citizen ministry lacks adequate
budget: Minister Acharya (kh 16/05/2023)
Govt’s
expenditure exceeds income (kh 15/05/2023)
Economic
outlook and fiscal budget : A single budget cannot
resolve all structural issues but it can take corrective
steps, by Chandan Sapkota (kp 11/05/2023)
Finance
Minister discusses budget with international development
partners (kh 11/05/2023)
A
Disappointing Picture of Capital Expenditure, by
Suraj Ghimire (rep 10/05/2023)
Govt
facing difficulties to manage resources for upcoming
budget: FinMin Mahat (ae 10/05/2023)
New
Finance Minister Needs to Promote Budget Credibility,
by Anirudra Neupane (rep 08/05/2023)
Upper
House lawmakers show concerns over 'vague' words in
budget (rn 08/05/2023)
Pre-budget
deliberations could be cut short as House session
lingers : Experts on parliamentary affairs say such
problems arise when the House maintains no calendar,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/04/2023) [A
direct consequence of the undemocratic policies of the
"top politicians" of all parties who are exclusively
interested in power!]
Budget
transfers equal capital expenditure last year; a serious
issue of credibility (kh 15/04/2023)
Government
spending hit by slowed revenue inflow : Officials admit
that there have been some issues related to payment, but
say that the problem is not as severe as made out to be,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 06/04/2023)
Finance
ministry cuts conditional grants allocated for
sub-national governments (rep 03/04/2023)
Budget
formulation without a finance minister (ae
30/03/2023)
Fiscal
equalization grants: Sub-national govts to receive lower
budget for next fiscal year (ae 22/03/2023)
Budget
deficit crosses over Rs 156 billion in eight months :
The government has only achieved 42.7 percent of its
annual revenue collection target, and only 43.44 percent
of its budget expenditure target has been met so far
(nlt 15/03/2013)
Fiscal
deficit grows wider as revenue shortfall continues
(ae 07/03/2023)
Status
of Federal Budget Implementation: Zero progress in 36
economic sector programs announced in federal budget
(ae 02/03/2023)
Govt
transfers over Rs 23 billion budget in seven months
(kh 01/03/2023), Nearly
44.74 billion budget transfer in first seven months of
FY 2022/23 (kh 01/03/2023)
NPC
lowers budget ceiling for next fiscal year (ae
27/02/2023)
Government
trims budget size by 14 percent : Announcing a mid-term
review of the annual budget, Finance Minister Bishnu
Paudel said the budget has been cut down to Rs 1549
billion (nlt 12/02/2023)
Why
is the government in a deep fiscal hole? The government
has a target of collecting Rs1,403 billion in revenue in
the current fiscal year, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
12/01/2023)
Kathmandu
could cut funds to provinces and local governments :
Provinces were supposed to get nearly Rs130 billion and
local governments Rs300 billion in fiscal transfers,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 03/02/2023)
Domestic
debt: Govt seeks extra budget to repay internal debts
(ae 03/02/2023)
MoF
to slash recurrent expenses; around Rs 25 billion to be
saved (kh 01/02/2023)
Pension
office short of Rs20 billion as liabilities soar amid
drop in revenues : With government allocating less than
the required budget, the office seeks extra Rs17 billion
from finance ministry, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
23/01/2023)
World
Bank urged for enhanced budgetary assistance (rep
21/01/2023)
Capital
expenditure a meager 14% in six months (rn
17/01/2023), Capital
expenditure at less than 15pc in H1 (ht 17/01/2023)
Budget
expenditures at 24.26 percent in five months (kh
16/12/2022)
Call
for reforms in transparency of fiscal information
(kh 28/09/2022)
Govt
repeats late spending trend as fiscal year comes to a
close : Rs 52 billion spent as development expenditure
in past 25 days; Rs 15 billion spent on Saturday alone
(kh 10/07/2022) [Nepal
politicians will never change unless they are replaced
in their entirety by a responsible, younger and socially
inclusive generation! Otherwise, the personal power
struggles of failed top politicians who are not really
interested in the development of the country will
continue endlessly!], Government
spends over Rs 25bn in one day (ht 11/07/2022), Government
sets record in rush spending at end of fiscal year : On
Saturday, despite being the weekend, it paid out a
whopping Rs14.72 billion, setting a record for the
highest one-day capital expenditure, by Pawan Pandey
(kp 12/07/2022) [This testifies
to a lack of interest on the part of the responsible
politicians and administrators in a structured and
rational development policy!], Perennial
problem : Nepal's dev process will not move ahead as
long as the govt fails to spend the capital budget as
per its desire (ht 12/07/2022)
Gender-responsive
budgeting: Good on paper, poor on implementation : In
the absence of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms,
existing gender financing policies of Nepal have failed
to yield desired results, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp
06/07/2022), Women
in budget : Despite significant strides, some gaps in
mobility and entrepreneurship remain (kp 07/07/2022)
Former
vice-chairs of National Planning Commission demand probe
on budget tampering case : "The government has failed to
increase exports, ensure proper mobilization of foreign
aid and loans, attract foreign investment, facilitate
tourist arrivals, and ensure remittance inflows through
formal channels to improve the depleting foreign
currency reserves." (nlt 05/07/2022)
Capital
expenditure at less than 40 per cent (ht
01/07/2022), Only
41.62 percent of capital budget spent as 12 days remain
in this fiscal (kh 05/07/2022)
Let’s
hope people won’t brand this budget as the worst-ever,
by Krishna Prasad Dahal (21/06/2022)
Constricted
devolution of fiscal power : The new leadership at the
local level needs to find ways to boost capital
expenditure, by Achyut Wagle (kp 21/06/2022)
All
provinces present their budgets, targeting economic
recovery : The combined budgets of the seven provinces
for the next fiscal year amount to Rs305.46 billion,
nearly 17 percent higher than the current fiscal year’s
budget, by Pawan Pandey (kp 16/06/2022), Spending
money wisely : The budgets should have found regionally
specific ways to keep the youth at home (kp
17/06/2022), Provincial
budgets : As long as there is easy money flowing in, the
provinces will not have the incentive to boost their
economy (ht 17/06/2022)
FY
79/80 budget: From the perspective of energy balance,
by Sailesh Chitrakar and Rama Thapa (ht 15/06/2022)
Education,
Science, Technology and Innovation impetus in Nepal’s
budget : At least 0.75 percent of GDP should be
allocated for the S&T. A separate Ministry of
Science and Technology should be established to
streamline S&T activities, by Raju Adhikari (nlt
13/06/2022)
Budget
debate in Nepal is about MPs seeking more for their
constituencies : Parliamentarians often forget their
main job—making laws. They consider themselves
development workers, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/06/2022)
‘Problem
lies not in introducing programs but in implementing
them’ (rep 11/06/2022)
Confusion
engulfs budget plan to set up Rs500 billion fund for
farm financing : Central bank says it was unaware of
such plan. Bankers, who have already lent hundreds of
billions to the sector, are concerned about who will
regulate the microfinance fund, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 10/06/2022)
Nepal
drops down in global rankings on budget accountability:
What does it indicate? This shows that citizens now have
less access to timely and comprehensive information they
need to participate in decision-making and hold the
government to account, by Subhash Dahal (nlt
07/06/2022) [see report
results on Nepal]
Budget
allocates large funds for debt servicing : Big
borrowings for post-quake reconstruction, Covid
response, and rupee’s devaluation blamed for high debt
servicing costs, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
05/06/2022)
Austerity
is good but government has created more liability for
itself : Costs for salary and pension of government
staff and social security up by Rs76 billion for the
next fiscal year as the ‘election-oriented’ budget
focuses on populist schemes, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 04/06/2022)
Budget
2022/023 Populist Package (sp 09/06/2022)
Ruling
party lawmakers also find fault with new budget : Nepali
Congress lawmaker Gagan Thapa says funds have been
allocated disproportionately to benefit certain
politicians in western Nepal, by Binod Ghimire (kp
03/06/2022)
“Putting
it bluntly, the budget is only intended to influence
election”, by Dhiraj Basnet (kh 02/06/2022), Programs
mentioned in budget should be implemented: Gagan Thapa
(kh 02/06/2022)
Madhesh
has been completely cheated in budget for coming fiscal
year: Yadav (rep 01/06/2022)
An
eye on the elections : It is customary to bring a large
budget and then dial down the allocations over the year
(kp 31/05/2022)
Budget
prioritises boosting local production over
infrastructure : Finance Minister says budget addresses
recommendations from private sector to promote
production rather than trade, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 31/05/2022)
Ambitious
budget : The most challenging task for the govt is to
spend the budget for the capital expenditure (ht
31/05/2022)
A
Rs1.79 trillion budget with programmes aimed at polls
and no clarity on resources : Economists say too big a
budget which could fuel inflation that’s already biting
people hard, just as the country stares at an economic
crisis, by Prithvi Man Shrestha and Krishana Prasain
(kp 30/05/2022)
Annual
budget’s five objectives, 10 priorities (kh
30/05/2022), Budget
allocations to ministries and departments (kh
30/05/2022)
Govt
presents budget of Rs 1.793 trillion, by Rajesh
Khanal (rep 29/05/2022), Major
highlights of budget for fiscal year 2022/23 (with
full text) (rep 29/05/2022), Civil
servants’ salaries raised by 15 percent (rep
29/05/2022)
Rs
3.89 billion budget for industrial infrastructure
(kh 29/05/2022), Rs
10.48 billion set aside for Ministry of Industry,
Commerce and Supplies (kh 29/05/2022), Govt
to allow Nepali contractors to invest abroad (kh
29/05/2022), Rs
55.97 billion allocated for agriculture and livestock
development (kh 29/05/2022), Govt
allocates Rs 9.38 billion for the promotion of tourism
sector (kh 29/05/2022), Government
announces to bring 1 million more tourists next year :
Allocates Rs 9.38 billion for tourism sector (kh
29/05/2022), Ceiling
of foreign investment lowered (kh 29/05/2022), Govt
reduces minimum threshold for FDI injection to Rs 20
million from Rs 50 million (rep 29/05/2022), 500,000
squatters to get land ownership certificate in FY
2022/23 (kh 29/05/2022), Government
to provide shelter to landless farmers (kh
29/05/2022), Rs
5,000 per month for kidney, cancer, and spinal cord
paralysis patients (kh 29/05/2022), Nijgadh
Int’l Airport figures in govt budget for upcoming
fiscal! (kh 29/05/2022) [??], Govt
to increase pay of civil servants by 15 percent (kh
29/05/2022), Govt
to reduce internet usage charge (kh 29/05/2022), Rs
7.5 billion allocated for Prime Minister Employment
Program (kh 29/05/2022), Over
Rs 69.38 billion allocated for health sector (kh
29/05/2022), Arrangement
of free kidney transplant (kh 29/05/2022), Old
age allowance from 68 years (kh 29/05/2022), Up
to 15 percent discount on electricity tariff for
industries consuming more than 100 million rupees
monthly (kh 29/05/2022), Govt
to reserve 10% quota on IPOs for Nepali migrants abroad
(kh 29/05/2022) [All of these plans will require lots of extra
money. Where is this to come from?], Education
sector receives Rs 16 billion more budget this year, day
meal up to Grade 7 (kh 29/05/2022), National
Cyber Information Center to be established (kh
29/05/2022), Finance
Minister pledges paradigm shift through budget (kh
29/05/2022)
Populism
and ad-hocism in policymaking: How it will aggravate
Nepal’s economic troubles : The concern right now is
what will happen if international fuel and food prices
and dollar appreciation do not abate? Is there a proper
plan with the government to tackle such a grim prospect?,
by Dikshya Singh and Kshitiz Dahal (nlt 29/05/2022),
Budget
day: Concern is rising inflation and economists warn
against bloated plan : Experts call for a budget that
addresses current economic challenges while avoiding
populist tilts in the election year, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha and Krishana Prasain (kp 29/05/2022)
Budget
to focus on social justice, independent economy (ht
18/05/2022), Economists
warn a big budget will send prices soaring : An
overblown budget, a tendency in Nepal, could result in
tax-inflation, ultimately hitting the public, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha and Sangam Prasain (kp 19/05/2022)
Budget
session recommended for May 17 : The government needs to
present the annual budget on May 29 (kp 08/05/2022),
Boosting
Capital Expenditure, by Shyam Prasad Mainali (rn
11/05/2022)
Govt’s
capital expenditure stands at meager 27.45 percent of
the targeted amount in Q3 (rep 15/04/2022)
Finance
Ministry consults bankers on budget making (kh
29/03/2022)
Nepal's
Next Budget Must Remodel its Conventional Epigraph,
by Hari Prasad Shrestha (kp 16/03/2022)
Budget
for populist projects in election year a pattern,
observers say : There are fears the current Deuba
government too could include such projects in the
upcoming budget, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
14/03/2022)
Government
debt reaches Rs 1728.93 billion : External debt
decreases due to US dollar exchange rate fluctuation,
by Eak Raj Bastola (kh 21/02/2022)
Government
dials down annual budget, once again, after failing to
spend : Economists say an electoral spending boom this
year and last year’s low base effect may help the
economy grow to some extent but the 7 percent target
still looks too ambitious, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/02/2022), Annual
budget size reduced to Rs 1.546 trillion (ht
11/02/2022)
FDI
in first five months of current FY increases by 49.6
percent; Govt’s capital expenditure stands at 13.44
percent (kh 16/01/2022), Govt’s
capital expenditure stood only 13.44 percent in the
first half of current FY, less than last year’s 14.4
percent (rep 16/01/2022)
Finance
Minister Directs Ministries To Spend 30 Per Cent Of
Budget Within One Month (rn 17/12/2021)
How
pandemic ate up a huge chunk of budget : Rs42.53
billion, nearly half of the total allocated for the
health sector, spent to fight the virus and address its
impact on livelihood and the economy, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 12/12/2021)
Finance
Minister’s discontent over meagre capital expenditure
(kh 25/11/2021)
Budget
and budget system are in trouble: Finance Minister
Sharma (kh 24/11/2021)
Govt
yet to settle arrears of over Rs 25 billion of FY
2020/21 (rep 19/11/2021)
Budget
crunch hits shelter programme for citizens (ht
27/09/2021)
Lower
house endorses budget amid UML protest : The bill now
will be sent to the upper house. The government shutdown
would be lifted once the bill gets through (kp
20/09/2021)
Selection
of undeserving projects is one of the main causes of
slow capital expenditure: Finmin Sharma (rep
19/09/2021), Govt
spent Rs 207.20 million from state coffers in two days
after budget holiday (rep 19/09/2021)
Replacement
bill stuck in the parliament, govt expenditure to be
affected for few days (kh 14/09/2021), Government
faces financial deadlock as budget fails to get
through Parliament : A shutdown situation as no spending
allowed and further delay could lead to a crisis,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 15/09/2021)
Budget
plans low-cost meals, monetary aid for the poor, but
experts smell electoral motives . Government has yet to
identify the prospective beneficiaries, by Anup Ojha
(kp 14/09/2021)
Finance
Minister presents budget-related Replacement Bill
(kh 10/09/2021), Finance
Minister Sharma downsizes budget : New budget allocates
Rs 1.647 trillion for FY 2021/2 (kh 10/09/2021), Coalition
govt budget: From economic relief to additional social
security (kh 11/09/2021), Budget
size revised to Rs1.63 trillion, with ambitious economic
growth : The coalition government led by Nepali Congress
has targeted a 7 percent economic growth, even as
experts have warned of possible third Covid-19 wave,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha and Sangam Prasain (kp
11/09/2021), Bill
slashes budget by nearly Rs 15 billion (ht
11/09/2021), Substitution
Budget: Oxygen and sanitary pad industries to get 100
percent tax exemption for three years (rep
11/09/2021)
Nepal’s
budget allocations to repay foreign, domestic loans
tripled in five years : Experts say it’s high time
governments were more selective in borrowing with the
debt to GDP ratio crossing 40 percent, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 29/08/2021)
Govt
to announce new budget through ‘substitution bill’
(rep 10/08/2021), Deuba
government to revise ordinance budget presented in
May-end : Experts say revision to the budget and its
size necessary, but the white paper came just to
discredit Oli government, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 11/08/2021), National
coffers running a deficit of Rs 143 billion (ht
11/08/2021)
Authorities
told to refund unspent budget (ht 01/08/2021)
Non-appropriation
of budget hits people's residence programme (ht
27/07/2021)
Finance
Minister Sharma looks to announce new budget for FY
2021/22 (rep 25/07/2021)
Finance
minister presents ordinances on budget at reinstated
House : The erstwhile Oli-led government had introduced
the budget on May 29 through an ordinance a week after
the House was dissolved. Leaders say the option of
presenting a supplementary budget remains, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/07/2021)
Only
60 Per Cent Of Development Budget Spent In This FY
(rn 15/07/2021)
Budget
hit as Oli govt nosedives 3 days prior to its
implementation (kh 14/07/2021), After
court’s observations, questions arise over fate of
ordinance budget : The court called the introduction of
the budget through an ordinance a week after House
dissolution fraudulent. Legal experts say Deuba
government can bring a new one, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 14/07/2021)
More
budget for construction of govt buildings (ht
09/07/2021)
Washed
out : Officials still make it a point to begin work at
the last minute in the thick of the monsoon (kp
23/06/2021)
Budget
And Its Governing Principles, by Mukti Rijal (rn
10/06/2021)
What
else could have been done in Budget 2078/79?, by
Nitish Lal Shrestha (kh 04/06/2021)
A
budget without economic objectives : Every government
has tried to launch schemes to stir up the public for
election gains, by Jagadish Prasad Bist (kp
04/06/2021) [Criminal procedure!]
Licence
to plunder : The outrageous announcement erodes years of
conservation efforts at the stroke of a pen (kp
02/06/2021), Big
budget, big promises : Given that the pandemic is
affecting economies everywhere, Nepal’s budget is
exceptionally far-fetched, by Chandan Sapkota (kp
02/06/2021)
Budget
heavily relies on foreign funds for Covid-19 prevention
: Government aims to get Rs 26.21 billion or 71.67
percent of the allocation for the Covid-19
Prevention and Control Programme from foreign donors,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 02/06/2021)
Budget
2021/22: Positive to the private sector, informal
sectors feel neglected (kh 01/06/2021)
Opposition
parties term budget as “populist” (kh 30/05/2021), A
bloated budget of Rs1.64 trillion through ordinance :
With some focus on fighting the coronavirus, the
financial plan of Oli administration carries lofty
promises which observers say are aimed at the uncertain
elections, by Prithvi Man Shrestha and Sangam
Prasain (kp 30/05/2021), Incentives
and tax rebates galore in new federal budget with focus
on midterm elections : Incentives include deduction of
value added tax on diesel and cooking gas for businesses
and on payments through electronic mode, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 30/05/2021), Government
unveils nearly Rs 1.65tn budget for 2021-22 (ht
30/05/2021), Small
parties lament a full budget from caretaker government
(kh 30/05/2021), All
bark and no bite : Reflecting on the government that
announced it, Budget 2021-22 is bound to be
unimplementable (kp 31/05/2021)
Government
unveils Rs 1.647 trillion budget for FY 2021/22 :
Allocates Rs. 26.75 billion for vaccination against
coronavirus (kh 29/05/2021), Major
highlights of budget for fiscal year 2021/22 (rep
29/05/2021)
Do
not bring budget through ordinance: Nine former NPC
vice-chairmen (kh 27/05/2021)
Oli
mulling budget through ordinance as his vote of
confidence in Parliament remains pending : The federal
budget for the next fiscal year must be presented on May
29. Parliament session is yet to be called for
presenting policies and programmes and pre-budget
discussions, by Anil Giri (kp 18/05/2021) [Oli needs no parliament, just a president who
willingly signs his every ordinance!]
Ill-timed
trust vote may scupper pre-budget session : Avoiding the
pre-budget discussion is like barring people from
participating in the budget process, a former Parliament
Secretariat official says, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/05/2021) [PM Oli does not
need a budget. He can rule without one and also without
parliament! The money earmarked for the country's
development is never spent as planned anyway!]
Things
to do before the budget : Institutional structures at
the federal level should be reduced by at least a
quarter, by Khim Lal Devkota (kp 06/05/2021)
FNCCI
seeks a revision in income tax and VAT rate in FY
2021/22 budget (rep 26/04/2021)
Central
govt recommended to provide Rs 152.51 billion in fiscal
equalization grants to provincial and local govts for
next FY (rep 22/04/2021)
Only
20 percent budget spent in eight months, by Shivaraj
Bhatta (ae 26/03/2021)
Ministry
of Finance begins budget preparations for fiscal year
2021-22 (ht 18/02/2021)
Govt
reduces budget size to Rs 1.344 trillion (kh
09/02/2021), Government
downgrades budget expenditure by 9 percent : The cutback
is based on slowed economic activities and consequent
plunge in revenues due to Covid-19, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 10/02/2021), Budget
size revised down to nearly Rs 1,345 billion (ht
10/02/2021)
Slow
capital spending irks FinMin Paudel (ht 25/01/2021)
Capital
Budget Spending Stuck At 12.2%, by Modnath Dhakal
(rn 06/01/2021)
Lack
of budget management affects road construction (ht
04/12/2020)
Capital
expenditure at dismal 8.34 per cent (ht 23/11/2020)
पूरक
बजेट : एक अनिवार्य विकल्प : प्रादेशिक एवम् स्थानीय सरकार
र उद्योग वाणिज्य क्षेत्रका समानान्तर संरचनाहरूलाई
रोजगारीका अवसरहरूको पहिचान र सिर्जना गर्न संघीय सरकारले
स्रोत र वातावरण प्रदान गर्नुपर्छ [Supplementary
budget: a mandatory option : The federal government should
provide resources and environment to the provincial and
local governments and the parallel structures of industry
and commerce to identify and create employment
opportunities, by Achyut Wagle (ka 18/11/2020)
Clarification
sought for delay in endorsing budget (ht 11/11/2020)
Government
looks for more loans as debt balloons : Borrowing from
World Bank and others is for capital expenditure and
distributive programmes but experts warn it cannot go
beyond 50 percent of GDP, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 24/08/2020)
Budget
for interest rate subsidies remains unspent as demand
for loans shrinks: Government also provides interest
subsidies for credit extended under the Youth
Self-Employment Programme, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 19/08/2020)
Plan
to call bids for all projects by mid-August fails:
Officials cite incomplete preparatory works, uncleared
past liabilities, and restrictions on movement due to
Covid-19 as reasons for delay, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 15/08/2020)
How
government scrambles to spend budget, by Nitish
Shrestha (kh 12/08/2020)
Finance
Ministry issues new guidelines to ensure better capital
expenditure: Government agencies taking up development
projects are required to invite tender bids by
mid-August and award contracts by mid-October, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/07/2020)
Government
capital expenditure reaches nearly 50 percent after a
last minute spending spree: Nearly half of the capital
budget has been spent after the Covid-19 outbreak,
followed by monsoon season, questioning the
effectiveness of the quality of works (kp
17/07/2020)
Budgeting
it right: Provincial governments’ appropriations lack
vision for ameliorating the social determinants of
health (kp 17/06/2020)
Capital
spending dismal at fag end of fiscal: Only 31 per
cent development budget spent; Average expenditure in
previous years 60pc (ht 17/06/2020)
The
budget has failed to take advantage of a critical
juncture: The government has, once again, not been able
to enact structural change when afforded an opportunity
by the extraordinary circumstances, by Chandan
Sapkota (kp 03/06/2020)
Federal
Budget For Fiscal Year 2020, by Siddhi B. Ranjitkar
(km 01/06/2020)
Even
ruling party leaders are not impressed with the budget:
Opposition party leaders say budget does not address the
challenges posed by Covid-19, by Anil Giri (kp
01/06/2020)
Budget
fails to fund environmental issues, address challenges,
experts say: While the government has increased tax on
e-vehicles, backtracking on its commitments, it has also
paid little heed to the link between public health and
environment, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
30/05/2020), Former
finance ministers describe budget as traditional with
nothing new to offer: With more focus on managing costs
and cash flows, most of its goals are challenging and
difficult to achieve, they say, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 30/05/2020)
Despite
massive blow to economy from Covid-19, government aims
for 7 percent growth: The government’s target is overly
ambitious and unrealistic, say experts, especially as
the full impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have yet to be
felt, by Sangam Prasain (kp 29/05/2020), Budget
size reduced by 3.8pc to Rs 1.47 trillion: Due priority
given to health, employment generation and relief for
crisis-hit businesses; Khatiwada sets 7pc growth target
for next fiscal, by Sujan Dhungana (ht), Budget
announces significant tax exemptions of up to 75 percent
for micro and small industries: The budget for the
upcoming fiscal year has sought to provide remedy to
industries affected by Covid-19, including tourism,
agriculture and small businesses, by Prithvi Man
Shrtestha (kp 29/05/2020), Health
sector gets 32 percent more budget compared to previous
year: Experts say that the budget will be insufficient
to deal with the pandemic and resume regular services if
the number of Covid-19 cases surges past government
estimates, by Arjun Poudel (kp 29/05/2020), Nepal’s
budget: Not quite all there: Though the government seems
to have its heart in the right place, the plans and
allocations announced are underwhelming (kp
29/05/2020), Budget
focuses on infrastructure to generate extra jobs, by
Umesh Poudel (ht 29/05/2020)
Major
programs introduced by the government through the new
budget (rep 28/05/2020)
With
new budget today, experts foresee a focus on employment
and agriculture: Although most experts agree on the
focus areas, they are divided on whether the size of the
budget must be larger or smaller than in the previous
years, by Sangam Prasain and Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 28/05/2020)
Bring
gender-responsive budget: HoR panel (ht 27/05/2020)
Nepali
Congress-formed economic task force suggests smaller
budget amid Covid-19 crisis: The committee also
suggested a number of measures to rescue the economy
marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 25/05/2020)
Imperatives
Of The Upcoming Fiscal Year Budget, by Mohan Man
Swar (rn 23/05/2020)
Nine
govt agencies return nearly Rs5 billion for failing to
spend budget: The Nepal Army which was allocated a
handsome amount of Rs15.1 billion to speed up works
related to Kathmandu-Nijgadh Fast-Track, has returned
Rs2.83 billion through the Defence Ministry, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/05/2020)
Capital
spending at 28 per cent in first 10 months (ht
15/05/2020)
Prioritise
rights issues in upcoming fiscal budget, says NHRC
(ht 15/05/2020)
Full-fledged
budget on May 28, says FinMin (ht 14/05/2020)
The
lockdown budget: The government needs to reassess budget
priorities, but it seems reluctant to listen to sound
advice, by Achyut Wagle (kp 12/05/2020)
Bring
partial budget now, supplementary budget later, urges
opposition (ht 12/05/2020)
Fiscal
budget to prioritise revitalising crisis-hit economy,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 11/05/2020)
Upcoming
budget to put new projects on hold as the economy braces
for a hit: The pandemic and the lockdown’s impacts have
meant that revenue collection has fallen, forcing the
government to revise its budgetary ceilings, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha and Sangam Prasain (kp 09/05/2020), Priorities
For The Upcoming Budget, by Dibyeswar Prasad
Shrestha (rn 09/05/2020)
Nepal
Drops In International Rating On Central Government
Budget Transparency (rn 08/05/2020) [see
survey
related to Nepal], IBP
Survey ranks Nepal 65th in terms of budget transparency,
accountability (rep 08/05/2020)
Budget
Will Address Challenges Posed By COVID-19: Finance
Minister (rn 06/05/2020)
Finance
minister says revenue gap can be filled through foreign
aid (ht) [???]
Budget
to focus on health, infra, education and production
(ht 01/05/2020), In
light of Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences,
upcoming budget to focus on creating jobs: The budget
for the new fiscal year will prioritise programmes that
generate large-scale employment to account for the loss
of jobs and return of migrants, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 03/05/2020), Budget
planning: The government must buck its own trend of
non-performance to ensure employment to Nepalis (kp
04/05/2020)
Govt
starts reallocation of financial resources (ht
16/04/2020)
Billions
of rupees to be spent by lawmakers could be used to
combat Covid-19: Law Minister Tumbahangphe to consult
with the parties before taking a decision, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/04/2020)
Government
to divert Rs 136 billion budget to anti-Covid-19
measures: Funds for land acquisition, vehicle
procurement and events to go for the disease control,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/04/2020)
Budget
discussion affected due to lockdown (ht 01/04/2020)
Government
whittles down budget after failing to increase spending:
Despite the 10 percent cut, it believes that the bold
growth target of 8.5 percent can still be achieved,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 13/02/2020), Government
revises down budget size for 2019-20 by Rs 147bn (ht
13/02/2020)
Mid-term
spending: Provinces no better than center; Mid-term
spending of six provinces stands at only 12 percent of
the total budget (rep 19/01/2020)
Strong
government but weak capital expenditure: Capital
expenditure lowest in 3 years (rep 13/01/2020)
PM’s
10-yr Rs 131-billion agri projectspent just over 5% in
three years, by Shree Ram Subedi (rep 30/12/2019)
Expedite
capital spending (ht 22/12/2019)
Govt
agencies seek over Rs 20bn additional budget from MoF
(ht 21/12/2019)
One
of the oldest bazaars in Jhapa falls into decay: Over
5,000 households living around the Bhagudubba area rely
on the market for everyday essentials, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 05/12/2019)
21
local bodies yet to present budget for fiscal year
2019-20 (ht 03/12/2019)
Capital
expenditure only 6% in first four months (rep
20/11/2019), Poor
capital spending: The government’s inability to spend
the money allocated for public capital expenditure means
it is snatching away people’s jobs instead of creating
them (ht 21/11/2019), Marching
towards ‘Asare Bikash’ again: Developmental works snail
paced as four months of the fiscal year pass, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 24/11/2019)
Little
above 1pc budget spent in Karnali in first quarter of
fiscal year (ht 12/11/2019)
Province
1 spends just four percent of development budget in 1st
quarter, by Binod Subedi (rep 04/11/2019)
Development
expenditure 4.3pc in Q1: Till mid-Oct govt spent just Rs
17.7bn of allocated Rs 408bn (ht 15/10/2019) [The incompetent and corrupt
politicians and administrators will never change!],
Dismal
spending: Failure to spend capital expenditure will mean
no economic growth and no new job creation in the
country (ht 16/10/2019) [This
is a special form of crime and corruption by the highest
circles of politics and administration!], Only
4.41% capital spent in Q1 of FY2019/20 (rep
20/10/2019), Government
records poor capital expenditure in the first quarter:
Spending totalled Rs18.37 billion out of the Rs408
billion budget as of mid-October, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 22/10/2019)
Budget’s
fake economics: How will Nepal achieve 8.5 percent
growth? Likely sources of growth do not point to more
than a mediocre performance, around four to five percent,
by Sukhdev Shah (rep 07/08/2019)
Data
shows significant revenue and expenditure progress, but
economists cry foul: Revenue and expenditure targets
were considerably revised, leading new figures to show
marked progress, economists say, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 24/07/2019)
Sikta,
Postal Highway projects in Banke fail to spend budget,
by Arjun Oli (rep 23/07/2019)
Opposition
lawmakers demand probe into spending budget at the end
of fiscal year: The provincial government engage in
organising events to avoid budget freeze, lawmakers say,
by Deo Narayan Sah (kp 22/07/2019)
Capital
spending at 73 pc in 2018-19: Experts urge enhancing
capacity of bureaucrats, contractors (ht
17/07/2019)
Govt
yet to spend almost 50pc of development budget for
2018-19 (ht 10/07/2019), Government
capital spending dismal yet again, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 11/07/2019)
Finance
Minister defends domestic borrowing target (rep
10/07/2019)
HoR
passes budget for 2019-20 (ht 26/06/2019)
The
new budget offers nothing new: For the last 50 years,
Nepal’s economic priorities have remained the same—with
no noticeable improvements, by Niraj KC (kp
24/06/2019)
Half
of capital budget for 2018-19 yet to be spent (ht
21/06/2019)
Nothing
new to offer: The provincial budgets are a mere copy of
the federal budget with unrealistic goals, by
Chandan Sapkota (kp 19/06/2019)
We
need to focus on welfare and the digital economy: The
recently announced budget is business as usual and more
suited to the last century, by Bimal Pratap Shah (kp
17/06/2019)
Province
govts unveiling budgets totaling Rs 250 bn today
(rep 16/06/2019), Provincial
governments’ combined budget soars to Rs 270 billion:
Seven provincial governments have based their budgets on
the federal grant and revenue collected from local
levels (kp 17/06/2019), Seven
provincial govts present budgets, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 17/06/2019), Provinces
bring Rs 260 billion budget with focus on agro, tourism,
infrastructure (rep 17/06/2019), Big
and distributive: Budgets of provincial governments
(rep 18/06/2019)
Decoding
budget: One striking feature of Nepal budgeting has been
that almost the entire amount of revenue collected from
domestic sources gets spent for recurrent expenditures,
by Sukhdev Shah (rep 11/06/2019)
The
budget blues: Nepal’s poor spending capacity, by
Subhanu Khanal (ht 07/06/2019)
Playing
God: For government to promote private sector, it must
learn to play like God, which provides destinies and
allows humans to fulfill them while remaining invisible,
by Bishal Thapa (rep 04/06/2019)
Budget
Review 2019: Balanced but ambitious, by Satyendra
Timilsina (ht 03/06/2019)
Finance
minister defends pork barrel funding, but analysts are
unconvinced: Khatiwada faces criticism for bowing to
pressure and giving Rs60 million each to lawmakers to
spend in their constituencies, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 31/05/2019),
Finance
minister defends funds for lawmakers, by Sagar
Ghimire (rep 31/05/2019), Education
budget courts criticism: The amount earmarked is not
enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in
Education, educationists say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
31/05/2019), Budget
receives mixed reactions from private sector: The Rs
1.53 trillion financial plan bets on achieving economic
growth of 8.5 percent (kp 31/05/2019), FinMin
denies budget is distributive (ht 31/05/2019), Ambitious
budget: The budget for the next fiscal year looks
ambitious and unrealistic given the government’s weak
spending capacity (ht 31/05/2019), Federal
budget receives mix reaction in provinces (rep
31/05/2019)
Rs
1.53 trillion: Ambitious and unrealistic; The
government’s financial plan lays emphasis on
infrastructure projects, but reveals little about
how it will accomplish them, by Sangam Prasain (kp
30/05/2019), Govt
unveils Rs 1.53 trillion budget: Focus on infra
development; Inflation to remain within 6pc; Elderly
allowance up by Rs 1,000; Civil servants’ salaries
raised by up to 20pc; Economic growth projected at 8.5pc
in next fiscal, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 30/05/2019), Budget
For Fiscal Year of 2019: Magic Or Reality, by Siddhi
B. Ranjitkar (km 30/05/2019),
Govt
unveils ‘crowd-pleasing’ budget of Rs 1.53 trillion,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep), A
populist budget: Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada has
failed to resist political pressure (kp 30/05/2019),
Budget
2019-2020: Pieces of Rs1.53 trillion pie (kp
30/05/2019), Senior
citizens welcome increase in allowance, but say they are
not fully happy: Government has increased senior citizen
allowance by Rs 1,000, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/05/2019),
Health
budget increased marginally,but experts say it’s
insufficient, by Arjun Poudel (kp 30/05/2019), Rs
68 billion allocated for health, population (ht
30/05/2019), Education
gets 10.68pc of budget share, half of what government
had pledged: Finance minister has added some new
programmes but without adequate funding, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/05/2019), Budget
for education, science and technology increased (ht
30/05/2019), Energy,
irrigation and water supply projects get high priority,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 30/05/2019). Road,
rail and water transport infrastructure gets Rs163.52
billion budget: The government will now build separate
by-laws for faster implementation of large scale
development projects and will encourage execution of the
construction works in three shifts, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 30/05/2019), Federal
government reduces the budget for provincial
governments: Finance minister announces Rs99.85b for
next fiscal against Rs 113.43b in the current fiscal,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 30/05/2019) [Continued
recentralisation of a state that had been hopeful to
become a federal republic!],
Allocation
of Rs 60 million to lawmakers draws public ire: The pork
barrel spending will cost the state Rs 9.9b, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 30/05/2019) [Continued
corruption and taking advantage of male high-caste
parliamentarians, who are put up by the male Brahmin
leaders at the top of the parties! Uncontrolled money
distribution in arbitrary and uncoordinated development
projects is not the task of the legislators!], Constituency
Development Fund increased by 50 pc despite criticism:
Each FPTP lawmaker to get Rs 60 million (rep), No
silver lining for private sector, by Rupak D Sharma
(ht 30/05/2019), Economic
diplomacy, disaster management budget’s priorities
(ht 30/05/2019), E-vehicles
to combat increasing air pollution (ht 30/05/2019),
Infrastructure
projects get priority, by Umesh Poudel (ht
30/05/2019), Government
raises tax on imported goods (ht 30/05/2019), Govt
hikes salary of govt employees upto 20 pc (rep
30/05/2019), Rs
141b for post-quake reconstruction (rep 30/05/2019),
Transportation
sector gets priority in budget (rep 30/05/2019), Budget
focuses on farm commercialization, by Nikeeta Gautam
(rep 30/05/2019)
To
achieve high growth trajectory, government needs to set
priorities right: Oli administration has both
opportunities and challenges, experts and industrialists
say, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/05/2019)
Does
size of the budget really matter? Expansion is necessary
to fulfil needs of all tiers of government, say experts,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 28/05/2019)
Government
should widen tax base and strengthen tax regime,
analysts say: Economists lay emphasis on putting
sustainable and broad-based systems in place
rather than implementing ad hoc measures, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 27/05/2019)
Pvt
sector seeks programmes that encourage skilled workers:
Only 10 pc of the country’s 12 million workers are
engaged in the formal sector, by Umesh Poudel (ht
26/05/2019)
Call
to prioritise infrastructure development, by
Arpana Ale Magar (ht 25/05/2019)
Production
boost should be given priority, by Sujan Dhunagna
(ht 24/05/2019)
MoPIT
to focus on realistic projects for fiscal budget (ht
22/05/2019)
‘Bring
budget to coordinate three tiers of govt’, by
Jagdishor Panday (ht 21/05/2019)
Finance
minister should avoid populist budget and focus on
realistic programmes, experts say: Khatiwada will
present budget for upcoming fiscal year amid mounting
challenges, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 20/05/2019)
On
education, government looks generous with words but
stingy with funds: Despite pledges to improve quality of
education, government unlikely to increase budget for
the sector, by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/05/2019)
House
panel submits recommendation for next fiscal year’s
budget (ht 19/05/2019)
Private
sector presents budget wish list to Finance Ministry,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 18/05/2019)
Listen
to lawmakers: The upcoming fiscal budget must be
prepared based on the suggestions given by lawmakers
during the pre-budget debates (ht 16/05/2019)
Slow
capital expenditure continues to bedevil development
projects, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 14/05/2019), There
will be no excuse for justifying budget underspending
next fiscal: FinMin (rep 15/05/2019) [The
govt claimed similar things a year ago!]
Keep
aside budget for consolidating federalism: MPs, by
Jagdishor Panday (kp 13/05/2019)
Average
daily capital spending at Rs 41 million: Experts say
withholding payments may be an indication of corrupt
motives (rep 13/05/2019)
Report
says budget should focus on economic growth,
sustainability (ht 11/05/2019), Acceleration
of project development to be prioritised (ht
11/05/2019)
Former
FinMins urge Khatiwada to bring resource-sustained
budget for next fiscal (ht 09/05/2019)
MoPIT
budget set to increase by 35 percent (rep
09/05/2019)
Two-thirds
of budget of Kathmandu Tarai Expressway unspent
(brep 09/05/2019)
Survey:
Budget should give priority to economic growth,
sustainability (rep 09/05/2019)
Government
raising Rs 86 billion in domestic debt in final quarter
(rep 09/05/2019)
President
hints at populist programmes in upcoming budget, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 04/05/2019)
Ministries
face pressure of pork barrel projects (ht
26/04/2019)
Capital
spending at 35pc till mid-April: Government urged to
clear bottlenecks at bureaucratic and contracting
level (ht 17/04/2019)
Govt
intensifies work on budget formulation: Finance Ministry
to limit the budget within the NPC ceiling of Rs 1.5
trillion (rep 16/04/2019)
Government
spent
Rs 222.83b in last month of fiscal 2017-18: 20.55
percent of the total budget of over Rs1 trillion was
spent in mid June-mid July, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
13/04/2019)
After
promises
failed, secretaries told to focus on ‘flagship’
projects: It is implementation, not the addition of
loaded phrases in policies and programmes, that
matters, officials say, by Anil Giri (kp 11/04/2019)
Local
units scattering budget on small projects: Ministry
report, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 31/03/2019)
Eight
months into the fiscal year, local governments have yet
to present budget, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
24/03/2019)
Capital
spending low despite simplified procurement process,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 23/03/2019)
Perennial
problem (ht 20/03/2019)
Parliamentary
supremacy in govt spending under serious question: Over
Rs 800 billion spent out of budget in last three years,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 17/02/2019)
Govt
urged to allocate budget scientifically (ht
16/02/2019)
Government
yet to settle Rs 101 billion from FY2016/17 (rep
11/02/2019)
80pc
of foreign aid disbursed via budgetary system (ht
17/01/2019)
Govt’s
capital expenditure still sluggish: Only 17.68pc of Rs
313.9 billion allocated spent in first half of fiscal
(ht 16/01/2019)
Systemic
reform in overall budgetary system advised, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 28/12/2018)
Govt
yet
again fails to improve budget spending capacity: Capital
expenditure stands at 12.59pc of the total allocation in
first five months, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 19/12/2018)
Ministries
‘demand billions of rupees’, by Rajesh Khanall (kp
20/11/2018)
Provinces
spend less than 5pc of allocated budget, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 29/10/2018)
First
quarter of FY2018/19: Top ministries spend only 10% of
total budget, by Bishnu Tamang (rep 28/10/2018)
Govt
expenses less than revenue collection (ht
26/10/2018)
Capital
expenditure
still slow despite extra time: According to the Finance
Ministry, poor accountability on the implementation side
resulted in slow capital spending (kp 22/10/2018)
Government
takes time on internal borrowing as revenue exceeds
expenses, by Bishnu Tamang (rep 24/09/2018)
Khatiwada
says supplementary budget unlikely (kp 19/09/2018)
Supplementary
budget ‘gets PM Oli’s green light’, by Rewati
Sapkota (ht 23/08/2018)
Government
transferred Rs 3.66b in last month of FY: Rs 1.66
billion disbursed to pay for conflict victims and their
families (rep 28/07/2018)
Govt
treasury
empty after haphazard spending in last month: It is
unusual in our context for the government to have zero
balance as it may not be able to pay for any possible
emergency, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 21/07/2018)
Year-end
spending rush boosts cap expenditure (kp 19/07/2018)
Government
spent record Rs 33b Sunday (rep 17/07/2018) [???],
Over
30% of development budget spent in 12th month (rep
18/07/2018), Last
minute spending is killing prosperity dreams (rep
18/07/2018), Govt
fails to spend even revised budget (ht 18/07/2018)
Govt
rejigs Rs 200b unspent budget (kp 15/07/2018)
PM
adjusting ministry-wise programme in budget, by
Rewati Sapkota (ht 15/07/2018)
Bungling
on
budget: Federal government was much criticized for
exercising centralized attitude in allocation of budget.
Provincial governments repeated that mistake, by Raj
Kumar KC (rep 12/07/2018)
Govt
hiding budget transfer details since February (rep
10/07/2018)
Govt
spent Rs 10b in recurrent expenses Friday, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 09/07/2018)
End
of fiscal year spending results in shoddy work:
Rupandehi looks for ways to spend Rs 2 billion in 15
days, by Binod Pariyar (rep 29/06/2018), Eleventh-hour
spending continues unabated: Several infrastructure
projects are being implemented in haste so that all
works are complete before the fiscal year-end. Locals
are disappointed with the quality of work, by Mahesh
Kumar Das (rep 29/06/2018)
Budget
transparency: A must to achieve goals, by Dutta
Shree Duwadi (Khanal) (ht 28/06/2018)
Govt
accepting Rs 25 billion off-budget foreign aid annually
(rep 26/06/2018)
Missed
opportunities: The budget fails to create confidence in
the private sector and encourage investment, by
Udaya Shumsher Rana (kp 22/06/2018)
Govt
unlikely to spend even revised budget (ht
22/06/2018)
Budget
fails to usher reforms in tax system (ht 21/06/2019)
Bleak
progress in spending dev budget despite stable govt:
Only 30 days remain to spend half of the budget (rep
17/06/2018)
All
provinces table budgets (kp 16/06/2018), All
7 provinces table budgets, programs for FY2018/19
(rep 16/06/2018), Provincial
governments present budget (ht 16/06/2018)
'Budget
has not given enough priority to infrastructure
building', interview with Biswo Poudel (rep
13/06/2018)
Budget
projection for three fiscal years: Govt to lower
recurrent expenses, raise dev budget (rep
09/06/2018)
Realistic
aims: Finance minister has come up only with plans and
programmes that can be implemented, if tried honestly,
by Bhoj Raj Poudel (kp 07/06/2018)
Foreign
investors ‘disappointed’, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
06/06/2018)
Opportunities
squandered: The budget would have been a good
expenditure and revenue plan under normal times.
However, given the sizable electoral mandate, its falls
short of introducing transformative reform measures,
by Chandan Sapkota (kp 04/06/2018)
Government
restores practice of 3-year expenditure plans: MTEF
makes budget cycle more dynamic and aligned with
periodic plans (rep 02/06/2018)
Budget
fails
to please even ruling party MPs: FinMin Khatiwada faces
ire for saying that he was forced to include
Constituency Development Fund (kp 01/06/2018), Business-as-usual
budget: What the country needs is a quantum leap in the
economy, not incremental change, by Yoga Nath Poudel
(kp 01/06/2018), Groping
in the dark, by Om Astha Rai (nt 01/06/2018), Budget
goals are
attainable says finance minister (kp 02/06/2018), Budget
private sector-friendly, claims FinMin (ht
02/06/2018), A
Trillion Rupee Budget! Maybe, our government should
really ask the experts on how to take care of the poor,
unemployed and the old instead of promising us the moon
and then providing peanuts, by Guffadi (kp
02/06/2018), Pvt
sector says federal budget ‘bureaucratic’ (ht
03/06/2018), Budget
for gender sensitivity and climate change to see new
record (rep 03/06/2018), Budget
gives Rs 730m for tourism infrastructure: Nine tourism
bodies did not receive capital expenditure, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 03/06/2018), FinMin
says budget inclusive, oriented towards prosperity
(kp 04/06/2018), Provinces
urge centre to reconsider budget, by Pratap Bista
(kp 04/06/2018)
First
federal
budget aims 8pc growth: Focuses on energy,
infrastructure and proposes a string of reforms in
social and agriculture sectors, by Sangam Prasain
(kp), NRA
budget up 3.35pc to Rs151.08b (kp 30/05/2018), Education
budget
fails to match government’s lofty goals: Healthcare
receives major boost with a substantial increase of 44pc
to Rs 56.41 billion (kp 30/05/2018), Rs
56 billion earmarked for healthcare (ht 30/05/2018),
Rs1.09
trillion for transport, infra projects (kp
30/05/2018), Budget
shines light on energy, hydropower sector: Govt will
develop 750MW West Seti with internal resources: FinMin,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 30/05/2018), FinMin
presents Rs 1,315-bn budget: Major focus on transforming
production sector and development of physical
infrastructure, by Pushpa Raj Acharydya (ht
30/05/2018), Full
of promises, but lacking focus: NC (ht 30/05/2018),
Budget
dashes hopes for faster industrial development, by
Rupak D. Sharma (ht 30/05/2018), Budget
more focused on physical infrastructure, by Umesh
Poudel (ht 30/05/2018), Ambitious
budget, focus on jobs and federal structure, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 30/05/2018), CMs
unhappy with budget (rep 30/05/2018), Government
slashes environment budgets by Rs 5.56 billion (rep
30/05/2018), Khatiwada
dispels doubts on 8pc growth, by Bibek Subedi (kp
31/05/2018), Eight
per cent growth target achievable: FinMin; Says as a
sign of respect to Mahat, he’ll aim for 7.9 per cent
economic growth (ht 31/05/2018), Budget
fails to impress differently-abled people: Government
makes grand plans every year, ‘but never implements
them’ (kp 31/05/2018), FM
trims Chure, forest budgets, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 31/05/2018), ‘Budget
is okay but the higher taxes are not’, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 31/05/2018), Budget
lacks vision, claims NC (ht 31/05/201), Lost
opportunity: There is nothing to be gravely disappointed
in, but Khatiwada seems to have squandered the
opportunity to make the budget a watershed in Nepal’s
economic reforms (ht 31/05/2018), Dealers
elated as autos termed ‘non-luxurious goods’ in budget
(ht 01/06/2018)
Infra,
energy, agriculture, tourism in budget focus, by
Anil Giri (kp 29/05/2018), FinMin
to present federal budget today (ht 29/05/2018), Govt
bringing
major reform programs to breathe new life into economy:
Finance minister tabling first full-fledged federal
budget today (rep 29/05/2018)
Survey
paints
bleak financial picture: Growing budget deficit;
Depleting foreign reserves; Per capita debt Rs28,963;
GDP growth 5.9 percent to Rs3 trillion (kp
28/05/2018), Economic
mapping of provinces (kp 28/05/2018)
Govt
issues directive on formulation of budget and plan of
local levels (ht 28/05/2018)
Budget
to change tax rates massively (ht 27/05/2018)
The
politics of budgeting: The people should not be taxed
heavily so that politicians can indulge in their desires,
by Gokarna Awasthi (kp 22/05/2018)
MPs
ask FinMin to do ‘reality check’ before preparing budget
(kp 11/05/2018), Govt
urged to be more realistic in allocation of fiscal
budget (ht 15/05/2018)
Each
province
to get Rs 19b in fed grant: NPC says around 15 percent
of upcoming central budget could go to provincial and
local governments, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
09/05/2018)
Industrialists,
bankers put forward budget wish list (kp 08/05/2018)
Trimming
the budget deficit: Reducing government spending and
raising taxes may not be the right way to do it, by
Jagadish Prasad Bist and Aadersh Raj Joshi (kp
03/05/2018), Upcoming
budget to safeguard domestic production (kp
04/05/2018), FinMin
not banking on NRB guv! Excludes him from budget
formulation team (ht 04/05/2018)
Budget
session to start on May 6: Cabinet proposes date to
President (kp 28/04/2018), The
new budget: Backed by a massive mandate to redefine the
course of Nepal, Oli government should make the most of
it (kp 30/04/2018), Pre-budget
discussions start on May 9 (kp 03/05/2018)
FinMin:
No
populist programmes in budget: He also criticised the
previous govt for issuing a populist budget that created
excess liabilities in the govt’s financial plan (kp
27/04/2018), 2018-19
fiscal budget to be balanced, genuine and tactful
(ht 27/04/2018)
Govt
looks
to FDI to cover budget deficit: The govt does not
have the funds necessary to implement the federal
system and achieve development goals (kp
21/04/2018), ‘External
finance crucial to achieve SDGs’ (ht 21/04/2018)
NPC
fixes budget ceiling of Rs 1,200bn for next fiscal
(ht 20/04/2018)
Provincial
plans: Planning and budgetary exercises provinces have
done will help them gain experience for the next fiscal
(ht 18/04/2018)
Govt
utilises
35 percent of capital budget in 9 months: Some reasons
for low capital spending are delays in appointment
of contractors, land acquisition, settlement of disputes
related to cost variation and permit issuance (kp
15/04/2018)
Rs
155b allocated out of budget for road projects: Ambition
of finance ministers behind financial indiscipline:
Experts (rep 15/04/2018)
1.6
trillion rupees budget suggested (ht 12/04/2018)
Provincial,
local govts urged to follow budget rules (ht
25/03/2018)
'Climate
relevant'
budget allocation said to be unrealistic: Experts stress
revisiting categorization code to make it more practical,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 25/03/2018)
Liquidity
Crunch and Unspent Budget, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
22/03/2018)
Budget
ceiling likely to be Rs 1,500 billion, by Rewati
Sapkota (ht 21/03/2018)
Govt
mulls budget transfer to local bodies based on spending,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 20/03/2018)
Rs
75bn
to be transferred to local bodies today: Central
government in uncomfortable position, budget
deficit to shoot up to Rs 56.56bn (ht 15/03/2018)
MoF
white paper likely to focus on energy, transport,
reconstruction (ht 13/03/2018)
MoF
revises down spending target, growth rate (ht
08/03/2018), Govt
to
introduce austerity measures as deficit widens:
Government’s budget deficit stood at Rs49 billion
as of Tuesday, which is around 1.9 percent of GDP
(kp 08/03/2018), Govt
revises down growth forecast to 6 pc,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep
08/03/2018), Government
announces belt-tightening measures amid budget shortfall
(rep 08/03/2018)
Budget
formulation in limbo with NPC vice-chair post vacant
(ht 06/03/2018)
Non-budgetary
demand soars to Rs 382 billion (rep 27/02/2018)
Budget
formulation process formally begins (kp 24/01/2018)
Govt
uses only 14pc of capital budget in first half (kp
15/01/2018), Prioritise
capital spending: Full-fledged implementation of
national pride projects can ramp up capital expenditure
(kp 17/01/2018)
Government
mulling over Rs 1,570bn budget for next fiscal (ht
05/01/2018)
Govt
hard pressed to arrange fiscal resources, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 04/02/2018)
MoF
identifies sources for budget financing (ht
02/01/2018)
Delay
in fiscal commission appointments may hit budget
transfers (rep 28/12/2017)
Cringed
CapEx: Low capital spending affects the quality of our
vital energy, road and telecom infrastructures, by
Kartika Yadav (rep 20/12/2017)
Local
units struggle to spend allocated budget (ht
12/12/2017), Low
spending:
Major reason for the local units being unable to spend
the budget was the delay in the endorsement of the Local
Level Operation Act by Parliament (ht 13/12/2017)
NPC
to start planning budget for three fiscals from next
week (ht 04/12/2017)
‘Elections
unlikely to affect capital expenditure’ (ht
03/11/2017)
Agriculture
budget being ‘misused’ in eastern region (ht
27/10/2017)
Utilise
funds on time: Govt must resort to carrot and stick
approach to expedite capital spending (kp
24/10/2017)
Country
seeks budgetary support from World Bank (ht
18/10/2017)
Ministries
seek additional budget of Rs 200bn, by Sabin Mishra
(ht 17/10/2017) [???]
Committed
liability of govt at 59pc of budget (ht 10/10/2017)
Budget
execution off to a slow start (rep 19/09/2017)
Low
capex spending and widening trade deficit, by Saurav
Bhasyal (ht 06/08/2017)
Huge
financial irregularities in targeted programs, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 28/07/2017)
80
pc budget spent on war victims (ht 25/07/2017)
Nearly
Rs 900 million budget frozen in Kanchanpur, by
Rajendra Bhatta (rep 24/07/2017)
‘Govt
projects must finalise contracts in 1st three months’
(kp 20/07/2017), Time-bound
action plan to ramp up capex, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 20/07/2017)
Rs
47 billion in recurrent budget spent in 10 days as FY
nears end, by Bal Krishna Gyawali (rep 13/07/2017),
Capital
spending
bunches towards year-end, againGovt spent Rs3.5 billion
per day in the last 21 days alone, almost 36pc of the
total budget (kp 16/07/2017), Rs
46b spent on last 3 days of FY, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep 16/07/2017), Govt
fails
to meet budget expenditure target (ht 16/07/2017), Low
spending:
Those responsible should own up responsibility and do
something to ensure that the development budget is not
only spent but spent wisely (ht 17/07/2017), Down
the
drain: Underutilisation and year-end bunching of capital
budget are tantamount to financial misuse (kp
18/07/2017)
Stingy
budget:
Power has been devolved to local units, but they have
not received matching funding, by Khimlal Devkota
(kp 07/07/2017)
Rs
88.53bn
raised from domestic borrowing (ht 06/07/2017)
More
budget
sought for education sector (ht 05/07/2017)
Failure
to execute budget results to Rs 221b cash surplus
(rep 05/07/2017)
Dismal
NRA
performance hits govt fiscal spending target (ht
29/06/2017)
Funding
from
friends: What this year’s budget says about Nepal’s
changing bilateral and multilateral ties, by Binayak
Basnyat and Kamal Bista (kp 28/06/2017)
Government
on
track to miss budget execution target yet again (ht
16/06/2017), Govt
unlikely
to meet capital expenditure target (kp 27/06/2017)
Local
units told to table budget on July 9: Central
budget-preparation process replicated at the local level,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 14/06/2017) [Most
of the local units will hardly be elected until then!]
Integrated
financial
info system mulled (kp 07/06/2017)
No
specific program for poverty alleviation in new budget:
PAF (rep 07/06/2017)
Participatory
budgeting:
Power to grassroots; Newly elected local governments can
in many ways exercise powers comparable to that of
Singha Durbar, by Thaneshwar Bhusal (kp 07/05/2017)
Application
of MTEF can make budget more realistic: Experts, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 07/06/2017)
Devil
is
in details: The budget, by Hisila Yami (ht
07/06/2017)
Bloated
budget:
Fiscal transfer to local bodies warranted a bigger
budget, but its implementation will be challenging,
by Chandan Sapkota (kp 05/06/2017)
Ministries
allowed
to spend right away (kp 31/05/2017)
Govt
unveils
Rs 1,279b budget for 2017-18, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp
30/05/2017), Empowering
local
units major focus of budget: The government has also
authorised the local bodies to manage all the
expenditure and operations of the health centres, health
posts and sub-health posts, by Binod Ghimire (kp
30/05/2017), An
annual
ritual: Govt should ensure that some crucial areas
mentioned in the budget are handled well (kp
30/05/2017), Budget
2017-18 (kp 30/05/2017), Infra
sector
gains priority; energy projects get Rs62.5b, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 30/05/2017), Federal
budget
for agri sector slashed by 15pc to Rs30.4b (kp
30/05/2017), Rs
15.34bn
allocated for forest conservation (ht 30/05/2017), 1.28
trillion rupees, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 30/05/2017),
Action
counts:
Ensuring a full and effective implementation of our
budgets is necessary for translating our development
priorities into reality (ht 31/05/2017), Annual
Budget
For Fiscal Year 2017 (2074), by Siddhi B Ranjitkar
(km 02/06/2017), New
budget
more an aspiration than a framework that can be
implemented, interview with Andreas Bauer (rep
03/06/2017)
New
measures
to ramp up capex introduced (ht 30/05/2017)
Govt
gets
leeway to frame budget of Rs1,280 billion (kp
29/05/2017)
Govt
unlikely
to meet revised capex target (ht 28/05/2017)
Budget
to
take on federal structure: Before proper implementation
of budget, the government will have to prepare a
conducive environment for economic development, by
Pawan Timilsina (ht 28/05/2017)
Lawmakers
press govt to continue constituency dev funds (rep
27/05/2017) [a source for
endless corruption on a failed way to development!!]
Govt
policies
and programmes: Budget focus on local body empowerment,
by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 26/05/2017), ‘Local
bodies
must get adequate budget’ (kp 27/05/2017)
‘Focus
on
infra development’ (ht 24/05/2017)
Recurrent
spending
to surge in 2017-18: Government has always been
criticised for increasing the size of its recurrent
budget, while being unable to utilise funds allocated
for capital spending (kp 23/05/2017)
Annual
policies
reach President: Fiscal programmes likely to be read out
on Wednesday (kp 22/05/2017)
Govt
preparing to table full-fledged budget on May 29, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 19/05/2017), Caretaker
government
to present new fiscal budget (ht 21/05/2017), Full
budget
on May 29: Expect no new programs, says Finance Minister
Mahara (ht 23/05/2017), Government
forges
consensus to bring full-fledged budget (rep
23/05/2017)
Debt
collection
suspended as govt savings top Rs262b, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 17/05/2017), Rs
235bn
remains idle due to slow expenditure (ht
17/05/2017), Low
spending:
It is the government which needs to make massive
investment in infrastructure development in targeted
areas. No growth is possible unless the government
increases its spending capacity (ht 18/05/2017)
Budget
for local units: Constituency Development Fund to be
discontinued, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 17/05/2017), MoFALD
prepares to double local unit budget (rep
17/05/2017)
Draft
bills
on public finance mgmt soon: MoF, by Rupak D. Sharma
(kp 15/05/2017)
Energy
ministry top performer in budget spending: Achieves 68
percent spending progress till mid-April (rep
15/05/2017)
Industry
Ministry
seeks more funds: The Industry Ministry failed to
implement programmes within their budget of Rs8.26
billion (kp 12/05/2017) [???],
MoI
seeks
to lift industrial sector’s ontribution to GDP (ht
12/05/2017)
EC
to
allow government to launch budget before completion of
polls, by Bibek Subedi (kp 11/05/2017)
Parties
dwell
on ad hoc budget on May 29 (kp 09/05/2017)
‘Ideally
budget
should be announced on May 29’, by Krishna Bahadur
Mahara (kp 07/05/2017)
‘Early
budget
pointless as working style unchanged’ (kp
04/05/2017)
Finance
Ministry
recommends creating transitional budget, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 03/05/2017)
EC
asks
govt not to present budget between elections (kp
30/04/2017)
Finance
ministry
still to finalise grant amount for 744 local bodies
(ht 30/04/2017)
Rs233.6b
sits
idle in state coffers: Slow capital spending blamed for
excessive collection of funds (kp 28/04/2017)
Major
parties
agree to put budget on hold (kp 27/04/2017)
Capital
expenditure
36 per cent in nine months (kp 18/04/2017)
MoI
unveils
priority areas for next fiscal year: Job creation,
promotion of business-friendly environment remain at the
top of the list (ht 18/04/2017)
Budget
2017-18:
Govt to transfer funds to local bodies directly, by
Rupak D. Sharma (kp 12/04/2017)
Budget
formulation:
Govt at a loss for lack of lawss to manage public
finance, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 05/04/2017)
Accountability
crisis:
Unspent budget funds should be returned to taxpayers
until capital expenditure rises, by Niranjan Mani
Dixit (kp 26/03/2017)
Government
plans
to increase capital spending next fiscal (ht
12/03/2017), Capital
spending
at 21pc as ministries fail to use funds (kp
15/03/2017)
MPs
slam
transfer of funds to non-budgetary headings (kp
10/03/2017), Fund
transfer
to small projects draws flak, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 10/03/2017)
Discussion
on
budget for next fiscal begins, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 07/03/2017)
Ministries
to
get spending authority a day after budget: The
government’s move is aimed at expediting
public spending, especially capital spending (kp
05/03/2017)
Spending
on
infra lowest among strategic sectors: Only 15.56pc of
allocation for infrastructure development spent (ht
05/03/2017)
FinMin
seeks
fund transfer of Rs 100b ahead of elections: Chief
Secretary Somlal Subedi opposes the proposal, by
Anil Giri (kp 23/02/2017)
Govt
to
cut short budget implementation process: To end practice
of seeking NPC’s permission to implement development
projects (kp 21/02/2017), Finance
Ministry revises budget downward (rep 21/02/2017)
Rs
14.86 billion dev budget spent in last 25 days (rep
09/02/2017)
What’s
the
hold-up? Delay by line ministries in the extension of
spending authority is surprising and worrying (kp
07/02/2017)
Budget
session crosses 10 months, by Ashok Dahal (rep
04/02/2017) [!!]
AgriMin’s
budget
ceiling for next FY up 11.48pc: The upper limit of
the ministry’s finances has been fixed at
Rs30.58 billion (kp 03/02/2017)
Govt
bodies
at a loss for lack of right to spend: On average, each
ministry has extended spending authority to about 80pc
projects and programmes, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp
01/02/2017), Little
progress:
Instructions and orders alone will not resolve the
problem of low spending; it is a matter of strong
political will to sincerely remove all the impediments
on the way (ht 02/02/2017)
Budget
ceiling
to hover around Rs1.2-1.3 trillion, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 26/01/2017), Resource
committee
caps next year’s budget at Rs1,206 billion (kp
31/01/2017)
Govt
formulates
strategy to make budget gender responsive (ht
22/01/2017)
Supplementary
budget
unlikely (kp 19/01/2017)
Ramp
up
spending: That govt hasn’t acted, despite knowing
pitfalls of low capital expenditure, is embarrassing
(kp 17/01/2017), Low
capital
expenditure: Begging for money but not having a plan to
spend it is an age-old problem in Nepal, by Sujeev
Shakya (kp 17/01/2017), Govt
to
unveil action plan to ramp up capital expenditure,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 18/01/2017), Govt
unveils Immediate Implementation Action Plan (rep
19/01/2017)
Challenges
in
budget implementation, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
05/01/2017)
The
Siraha model: In all future national budgets at least
half the development expenditure should be earmarked for
quick-yielding projects, by Sukhdev Shah
(28/12/2016)
Only
20 percent of budget spent in five and half months,
by Kuvera Chalise (rep 26/12/2016)
Capex
gathers
pace in fifth month of fiscal (ht 18/12/2016)
Rs
100-bn
supplementary budget on cards (ht 12/12/2016) [You hardly spend anything of the
original budget! Why a supplementary budget?]
MoI
faces
budget crunch to implement new projects (ht
10/12/2016)
Always
the
same: The budget spent on the development projects at
the last moment makes no sense as it compromises on the
quality of work (ht 06/12/2016)
‘Supplementary
budget
should be reformative’ (ht 06/12/2016)
Will
govt
be able to bring supplementary budget?, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 15/11/2015)
MoF
ramps
up monitoring of ministries (ht 28/10/2016)
Treasury
surplus
soars to Rs191b as capital spending slacks (kp
18/10/2016), Govt
expenditure
at 12.37pc: Only 3.42 per cent of total allocated
budget of Rs 311.95 billion for development works
spent in the first quarter of current fiscal year
(ht 18/10/2016)
Capital
expenditure
fails to pick up pace: Only 0.9 per cent of Rs 311.9
billion spent so far this fiscal year, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 25/09/2016), Get
down
to business: Govt should increase the size of capital
budget and utilise what is allocated for capital
spending (kp 26/09/2016), Buck
the
trend: Govt should take immediate steps to increase the
level of capital spending (kp 30/09/2016)
Finance
minister
seeks resources for supplementary budget (ht
05/09/2016), Budget
size
likely to go up by Rs100b: The government has around Rs
68 billion in extra funds at its disposal (kp
06/09/2016), FM
Mahara: No plan to bring supplementary budget, by
Kuvera Chalise (rep 09/09/2016)
Let
us
get fiscal: The budget does raise concern, not due to
the size per se, but because of where the money will end
up, by Ram C. Acharya (kp 25/07/2016)
Billions
in
unspent dev budget for Tarai frozen (kp 21/07/2016)
Delay
in
getting NPC approval despite early budget, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/07/2016)
Govt
spent
71.47pc of budget last fiscal (ht 17/07/2016)
Insulate
the
budget: There is no dignity in holding budget hostage to
political point-scoring (kp 15/07/2016)
Parliament
passes
Appropriation Bill: For the first time in 15 years, govt
has timely authority to spend; Raises hopes that
development spending would be expedited (kp
10/07/2016), There’s
room
for some missing projects: PM (ht 10/07/2016), Welcome
first
step: A timely budget is only the first step in boosting
the govt’s spending capacity (kp 11/07/2016), Political
row
put on hold 3 key bills on budget, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 14/07/2016)
CPN-Maoist
Centre
may block budget, by Tika R. Pradhan (ht 01/07/2016)
Lack
of
accountants in govt offices affects country’s capital
spending, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 22/06/2016)
The
big
size of the budget will not necessarily lead to a
rise in inflation, by Ruzel Shrestha (kp 19/06/2016)
Budget
blues:
Drastically increasing the budget without improving
absorption capacity is reckless and shows a lack of
accountability, by Chandan Sapkota (kp 17/06/2016)
Thinking
global:
People judge the success of politicians based on how
their consumption patterns changed after coming into
power; It is always interesting to hear former
finance ministers who did not deliver on budgetary
promises criticise the same mistakes the present
incumbent makes, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 07/06/2016), Brewing
fiscal
anarchy: Budget sounds more like a compendium of
aspirations rather than a credible plan backed by
adequate budgetary allocation or sound justification,
by Ram Sharan Mahat (kp 14/06/2016)
Social
Protection In Budget, by Lok Nath Bhusal (rn
07/06/2016)
Inflationary
Pressure On Budget, by Umesh Thapa (rn 04/06/2016)
Holding
Budgetary Criticisms On A Scanner, by Narad
Bharadwaj (kp 03/06/2016), Big
budget:
Implementation needed, by Namrata Sharma (ht
03/06/2016)
Macroeconomic
risks:
The budget could destabilise the macro economy and
undermine the country’s development efforts, by Tula
Raj Basyal (kp 01/06/2016), Budget
For
FY 2016 (2073) And Its Impact On Economy, by Siddhi
B Ranjitkar (km 01/06/2016)
Budget
Sends Ripples In Opposition, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
01/06/2016)
Congress
seeks
panel to probe budget leak: Says Parliament’s
sovereignty undermined; Obstructs House session, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 31/05/2016), NC
disrupts
Parliament: Seeks probe into leaks regarding vital
information of budget, by Prakash Acharya (ht
31/05/2016), NC
disrupts
House debate over budget leak, by Ashok Dahal (rep
31/05/2016), Govt
to
set up probe panel (kp 01/06/2016)
Bloated
budget
raises inflation fear: Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel
tables Rs 1048.92 billion financial outlay, exceeding
the initial ceiling of Rs 909 billion, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 29/05/2016), Distributive
budget
of Rs 1,048.9 bn launched, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
29/05/2016), Govt
in
bid to please all, says Nepali Congress: Argues budget
fails to focus on economic progress, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 29/05/2016), Mixed
reaction
from private sector (kp 29/05/2016), Rs
5.9b
for improving water supply in Valley (kp
29/05/2016), Infra
to
be made disabled-friendly (kp 29/05/2016), Special
focus
on schools (kp 29/05/2016), Income
tax
exemption limit hiked to Rs350k, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 29/05/2016), Income
tax
slab revised, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 29/05/2016),
Govt
allocates
Rs35.86 for farm sector, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
29/05/2016), Budget
2016-17:
Infrastructure development gets priority; Experts doubt
govt’s ability to implement (kp 29/05/2016), Rs
1.2t
school plan announced with little cash: Only Rs3b
secured of Rs240b expected from donors, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/05/2016), Health
Ministry
taken all by surprise: Establishing kidney centre in
Bhaktapur, increasing insurance coverage were not
discussed, by Manish Gautam (kp 30/05/2016), Bloated
budget:
Size of the annual budget is not an indicator of a
successful government plan of action (kp 30/05/2016),
Fiscal
budget
unsustainable, populist: NC; Party to expose govt
intention behind bringing such a budget (ht
30/05/2016), Doubling
grants
to local bodies: FinMin defends move; Says the govt
wants to make local bodies more powerful, resource-rich
(kp 30/05/2016), Has
Any Budget Been Implemented Totally?, by Nandalal
Tiwari (rn 30/05/2016), FinMin
clarifies
budget not as expansionary as portrayed (ht
30/05/2016), Private
sector
skeptic about budget 2016-17 (31/05/2016), The
New Budget: Colourful Responses, by Prem Khatry (rn
31/05/2016), Dahal
concerned
about budget fallout: But agrees to defend it in the
Parliament (ht 31/05/2016), NCE-Nepal
slams
budget for education (ht 31/05/2016), Budget
does
little to uplift quality of education: Educationists
(rep 31/05/2016)
Bracing
for
the budget: The budget, instead of directing investments
in the right direction, might contain a lot of
unproductive populist plans, by Yoga Nath Poudel (kp
27/05/2016), Budget
for
next fiscal year likely to boost grants (kp
27/05/2016), Budget
set
to break
Rs 909 billion ceiling: Many new initiatives regarding
infrastructure projects, agriculture, drinking water and
urbanisation have also
been planned, according to sources, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 28/05/2016), Govt
tabling
Rs 1.04 trillion budget today, by Rudra Pangeni and
Balkrishna Gnawali (rep 28/05/2016)
Capital
spending
low as only 7pc civil servants perform duties well,
by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 26/05/2016)
Unspent
budget:
Political instability and interference both at the
planning and operational levels hinder timely completion
of projects, by Chandan Sapkota (kp 23/05/2016)
Foreign
aid’s
share in budget may cross 30 pc, by Rupak D. Sharma
(ht 23/05/2016)
Making
it
work: Timely presentation of the budget will hopefully
lead to timely execution of development projects, by
Dutta Shree Duwadi Khanal (kp 22/05/2016)
Budget
to
exceed 1,000 billion rupees, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 22/05/2016)
‘Populist’
financial
outlay on the cards, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
21/05/2016)
Maoist
ministers
alerted on party’s budget agenda (kp 17/05/2016)
Capital
spending
at 22 percent till mid-May: Govt spending on development
work equal to about 50% of what it spent on its
employees' salary, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 17/05/2016)
[!!]
Govt
targeting
6.3 percent growth in 2016/17 (rep 16/05/2016) [Stop dreaming!]
‘Bring
innovative
and executable budget’ (ht 15/05/2016)
FNCCI
seeks
reforms in upcoming budget: Finance minister says
government not deviated from principle of free market
economy (ht 13/05/2016)
Treasury
surplus
at all-time high as govt fails to spend, by Rupak D.
Sharma (ht 12/05/2016)
Where
the
money goes: Political leaders’ main concern is about
their constituencies, which leads to a disproportionate
distribution of budget, by Khim Lal Devkota (kp
11/05/2016)
Budget
likely
to reach record Rs 1t, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
11/05/2016)
Budget
2016-17:
Govt mulls setting up pay commission (kp 08/05/2016)
Treasury
surplus
at all-time high of Rs 180bn: Govt had spent only
39.53pc of total annual budget as of Tuesday (ht
05/05/2016), Govt
sitting
on Rs 100 billion, unable to spend: 21 national pride
projects and 326 under priority one suffer, by
Laxman Biyogi (rep 05/05/2016)
Roads
to
China border top budget priority (kp 04/05/2016)
Spend
it:
Without sensible SOPs, Nepal risks entrenching its low
absorption capacity (kp 03/05/2016)
Budget
for
next fiscal: Stumbling blocks and options, by Dilli
Raj Khanal (ht 02/05/2016)
Govt
fails
to buck spending trend, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
30/04/2016), Secys
told
to expedite spending: Govt treasury has Rs 170b unspent
even as fiscal year draws to close (kp 30/04/2016)
Budget
session
from May 3 (kp 27/04/2016)
NPC
proposes
budget reduction: Says resources needed for
reconstruction; Fixes ceiling at Rs 909bn, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/04/2016)
FinMin,
MPs
not serious about budget: Finance committee members
(rep 20/04/2016)
‘Next
budget
to focus on investment-friendly climate’ (ht
13/04/2016)
Govt
to
start budget discussions today (kp 03/04/2016)
Govt
has
to spend Rs 1.66b daily to use up development budget,
by Kuvera Chalise (rep 26/03/2016)
National
Pride
Projects: Only 8 percent of budget utilised (kp
08/03/2016)
Govt
announces
schedule for planned internal debt (kp 02/03/2016)
Govt
needs
to spend Rs 1.39 billion development expenditure every
day, by Kuvera Chalise (rep 29/02/2016)
NPC
caps
next year’s public expenditure at Rs 908 billion: Budget
ceiling likely to be revised, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
25/02/2016)
Mid-term
review
of budget: Govt says will miss economic targets (kp
19/02/2016)
Capital
spending
likely to take a big hit this fiscal year (ht
20/10/2016), Meagre
development
budget spent so far (ht 22/01/2016)
6pc
of
capital budget spent in first 5 months (kp
30/12/2015)
Spending
Rs74
billion this fiscal ‘unlikely’, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 09/12/2015)
Country’s
score
in budget transparency plummets to 24 (ht
25/11/2015)
Govt
expenditure
dipped to 69.9pc in FY 2014-15 (kp 12/09/2015)
Govt
faces
challenge to endorse budget, by Binod Ghimire (kp
04/08/2015), UCPN-M,
UML
boycott debate on budget (ht 04/08/2015)
Govt
backtracks
on earlier decision, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
29/07/2015)
Art
of
spending: A complete change of mindset is required to
make budgets work in Nepal, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
21/07/2015)
Govt
has
significantly reduced education and health budget,
interview with Vidhyadhar Mallik (kp 20/07/2015)
Govt
spent
82.78pc of budget last fiscal (ht 19/07/2015)
Many
measures
recommended by PDNA not included in budget, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 18/07/2015)
President
endorses
Vote on Account Bill (ht 17/07/2015)
Total
expenditure
expected to reach 85pc of allocation (kp 16/07/2015)
Rs
819b
budget unveiled: With huge funds for reconstruction and
infra development, finance minister targets 6pc growth,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 15/07/2015), Mahat
presents
Rs 819.47 bn budget: VAT threshold raised to Rs 5
million; Elderly allowance doubled; Rs 74 bn for
reconstruction, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 15/07/2015),
Madhes
gets
special development package (kp 15/07/2015), Round-the-year
irrigation
in Tarai in five years, by Sangam Prasain (kp
15/07/2015), Edu
budget
percentage lowest in 10 years, by Binod Ghimire (kp
15/07/2015), Focus
on
academic research, teachers’management, ICT (ht
15/07/2015), Host
of
dev activites announced for Valley (kp 15/07/2015),
Valley
envisioned
as national capital of federal Nepal (ht
15/07/2015), ‘One
Village,
One Doctor’ to ensure basic health for all (ht
15/07/2015), Rs7
billion
increased for social security (kp 15/07/2015), Reconstruction
gets
Rs91 billion, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 15/07/2015), Govt
allocates
Rs 91 billion for reconstruction drive (ht), Rs54
billion
for infra development (kp 15/07/2015), Most
demands
addressed: Pvt sector, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
15/07/2015), Airport
development,
tourism re-branding high on agenda: No resources
allocation for much-talked-about Second International
Airport in Nijgadh (kp 15/07/2015), Budget
unveils
big plans for infrastructure, by Ramesh Shrestha (ht
15/07/2015), Consumer
rights:
‘No concrete programme to
address market anomalies’ (kp 16/07/2015), Budget
for
education insufficient: Stakeholders; Say given the
massive destruction caused in schools by earthquakes,
allocated fund is too low (ht 16/07/2015)
Budgeting
time:
Government must speed up the formation of Reconstruction
Authority (kp 15/07/2015)
UML,
oppn
decry NC monopoly in budget making, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 15/07/2015)
Govt
to
declare Budget Implementation Year: The objective of
Budget Implementation Year is to give the existing
development projects a shot in the arm (kp
13/07/2015), At
least
20 pc of budget sought for education (ht
13/07/2015), Budget
to
focus on quake recovery, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
14/07/2015), Budget
ceiling
lowered for physical infra ministry (kp 14/07/2015),
Govt
to
unveil expansionary budget of Rs 820-825 bn (ht
14/07/2015)
Budget
to
be presented on Tuesday (kp 12/07/2015)
Road,
transport
budget to go up by over 50pc (ht 12/07/2015)
Budget
may
not be growth oriented, by Rameshore Khanal (kp
10/07/2015), Annual
budget
expected to address ballooning trade deficit, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 10/07/2015)
Target
practice:
Budgetary objectives and targets should be based on
realistic assessment, not for the sake of populism (ht
08/07/2015)
Budget
to
target economic growth of 6pc (ht 07/07/2015)
Reconstruction
budget:
Allocation under separate head (kp 06/07/2015)
Govt
repays
more internal loans than allocated sum, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 05/07/2015)
Next
budget
to focus on rebuilding: FinMin, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 02/07/2015)
Govt
to
introduce new provision: Mulls action against officials
who underutilise allocated budget (ht 02/07/2015)
Draft
constitution
sets Jestha 15 for annual budget (kp 30/06/2015)
Prez
calls
budget session of Parliament from Tuesday (kp
26/06/2015)
Government
considering
new ways to fund bailout (ht 24/06/2015), Productive
sector
to need Rs 78.29bn in fiscal 2015-16 (ht
24/06/2015), Infrastructure
sector
requires Rs 11bn for reconstruction next FY (ht
24/06/2015)
Nepal’s
overall
budget credibility ranking improves (ht 20/06/2015)
[??]
NPC
sets
budget ceiling at Rs880b, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 10/06/2015), NPC
fixes
budget ceiling at Rs 841 bn, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
11/06/2015), Taxpayers
first:
It's absurd to plan intentionally huge budget while
there is severe deficiency in quality expenditure,
by Bhim Prasad Bhurtel (rep 13/06/2015)
FinMin
expects
to scrape together another Rs10b (kp 09/06/2015)
Budget
ceiling
may cross ‘Rs800 billion’ (kp 06/06/2015)
Govt
has
spent Rs 41.51 billion in one-month period since quake
(ht 27/05/2015)
Quake
effects:
Budget must now move away from cut-paste strategies and
recalibrate the discourse on rebuilding Nepal, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 26/05/2015)
Ministry
to
allot 45pc budget for rehab (kp 13/05/2015)
Budget
discussion
begins: ‘Avoid less important programmes’ (kp
19/05/2015)
Budget
presentation
deferred by a month, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
14/05/2014)
NTB
spending
less than 10pc of allotted budget (kp 24/04/2015)
Energy
Min
spends 36pc of budget by Q3 (kp 20/04/2015)
Capital
spending
to bunch towards last few months (ht 17/04/2015)
ADB:
Nepal’s
capital expenditure too low (kp 25/03/2015)
‘Financial
year
should begin from mid-June’ (ht 24/03/2015)
4
key ministries show low capital spending: As of the
first eight months of the fiscal year, they have been
able to spend only Rs 20.51 billion out of their
combined budget allocation of Rs 91.43 billion, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 20/03/2015)
FM
tells
officials to make early start on budget (kp
06/03/2015), FinMin
plans
budget by mid-May: Early submission expected to help
expedite development project works (ht 06/03/2015)
NPC
extends
budget ceiling of Rs 483.64bn to various ministries
(ht 05/03/2015)
Lack
of
accountability behind low capital spending (rep
27/02/2015)
Government
aims
to spend 85pc of capital budget (ht 24/02/2015)
Industry
Ministry
wants three-fold budget hike (kp 21/02/2015)
PM
instructs
ministries to spend money: Asks them to utilise
allocated budget without fear of facing corruption
charges from CIAA (ht 12/02/2015)
Budget
ceiling
fixed at Rs 735b (kp 10/02/2015), Budget
ceiling
of Rs 735.47 billion fixed for next fiscal (ht
10/02/2015)
Low
spending:
Govt sitting on Rs 95b: As of January 18, capital
expenditure came to Rs 15 billion out of the budget of
Rs 117 billion allocated for this fiscal year, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/01/2015)
A
poor start all over again: Govt spending pattern in the
first half of last 4 fiscal years slow and
unproductive, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
20/01/2015)
MoF,
NPC
to jointly monitor capital budget spending (kp
04/01/2015)
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