HoR session: MPS call for mobilising the budget on projects yielding maximum results

Kathmandu: Nepali Congress lawmaker Gyanendra Bahadur Karki has said the budget for the coming fiscal year should be focused on infrastructure, yielding results.

He stressed the need to mobilise the budget for such projects that give maximum results from limited sources. Taking part in a discussion on the principles and priorities of the Appropriation Bill in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Karki said the budget should be inclusive, sustainable, result-oriented and beneficial for the people.

The government should focus its attention on the matter of creating employment while making budget, he argued. ‘There is a challenge in how to get maximum results from limited sources. Policy-level clarity, an increase in implementation capacity and result-oriented plans are the demands of the country,’ Karki mentioned.

Stating that more than 3,000 glaciers in the country are melting rapidly, posing a threat of flood, he urged the government to take concrete initiatives to reduce the impacts of climate change.

Similarly, Gokarna Raj Bista of the CPN (UML) has expressed the view that the budget for the coming fiscal year should be presented to resolve problems of economic development of the country. He welcomed the bill, saying it has the objective of building a socialism-oriented, independent and prosperous economy by ending economic disparity.

Bista emphasised the need to maintain budget discipline, adding that the budget should have arrangements for creating employment in the country, making the young generation skilled through the medium of technology and producing human resources as per the demand of the labour market.

Appreciating the government’s thinking of moving ahead, addressing the demand for power in the winter season, keeping construction of Budhigandaki, Uttarganga hydropower projects as a priority, he asked the government to allocate a budget for this purpose.

Bista mentioned that priorities and principles of the budget for the overall economic development of the country are realistic.