Chairman KC slams govt for allocating extra budget for home districts

Chairperson of Rastriya Janamorcha, Chitra Bahadur KC, has criticized the government for allocating extra budget in home districts of limited leaders and raised questions as to how could other lawmakers face the people in this situation.

In the course of discussion on ministry-wise budget topics in today's meeting of the House of Representatives, lawmaker KC demanded to cut the budget of the physical infrastructure sector saying more budget was allocated for Gorkha, the home district of Prime Minister; for Dadeldhura, the home district of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and for Nuwakot, the home district of Finance Minister, Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat.

The situation of knocking on the door of the minister to ask for more budget for their districts and areas was regrettable, he mentioned.

Chairman KC claimed that the existing structures are not women and senior citizen-friendly and there would be no balanced development from these structures.

Similarly, lawmaker Dr. Amaresh Kumar Singh demanded the government to prepare a budget keeping children of Dalit, Chamar, and Musahar settlements in mind.

Saying women and Madhes have been discriminated against and neglected in budget allocation, lawmaker Raj Kishor Yadav demanded to correct it.

He complained that the budget was not allocated in a balanced manner, adding why Madhes was neglected and discriminated against.

Likewise, lawmaker Bhanu Bhakta Joshi mentioned that the allocation of the budget should be corrected as it was apportioned based on access to power rather than necessity.

Joshi further said the budget for the Ministry of Forests and Environment was not allocated as mentioned in the policy, program, and budget.

Discussion is underway on the budget topics under the Ministry of Forest and Environment as well as the Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens in today's meeting.

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