Local levels refuse to pay Rs 140 million of drinking water, electricity dues
12 local level governments of Banke and Bardiya have been impertinent to pay more than Rs 140 million dues they...
Internet fraud: Helpless consumers, apathetic regulator
Fraud is rampant in Nepal’s internet service. It is committed in two ways: by not delivering even a fourth of...
How banks enabled Nepal's biggest fraud and ruined people's life
Six hundred families sank their life savings into the promise of an apartment. Other 7000 people have lost their savings...
Medical expenditure: KMC throwing money down the drain
In past two fiscal years, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has disbursed a total of Rs 6.8 million in the name...
An unknown nexus of Nepali child trafficking
A revelation of how a substantial number of Nepali children are trafficked to the United States and Europe in the...
One year of Nepaleaks Money laundering: Political-administrative protection for big financial offences
While the government tries to influence the economically active group showing that it has been setting up the legal and...
Study in state’s fund, serve in a foreign land
After studying MBBS on government scholarship spending Rs 4 million, fresh graduates leave the country in the name of pursuing...
Misuse of Residential Buildings Raises Safety Concerns
Across urban Nepal, a growing number of hospitals, schools, offices and grocery stores are housed in residential buildings. The misuse...
The culture of undermining women ward chairpersons
Women ward chairpersons, who number 53 across the country, are facing bigger and different troubles compared to their male counterparts....
Local government: Six thousand complaints in a year
A total of 6,000 complaints have been filed at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority against local...
Encroached public spaces are turning into parks
Three elected officials of Kathmandu are leading a campaign to build parks by reclaiming public land from encroachers.
Chief administrators ruin e-attendance to sign in register for absent days
Five administrative chiefs of local governments who commute from home in Kathmandu Valley mark their presence in the register even...
Monitoring gone wrong at the local level
The law tasks deputy chief of the local government with monitoring plans and programmes. But many elected officials are unaware...
Local levels: Collect revenue but fail to deposit
Local levels are found to have spent the revenue collected from the people. Instead of depositing it in the banks...
Corruption in the pristine land: 500 million for not a single trail
In the last decade, Rs 500 million has been spent to develop infrastructure and facilities in Khaptad, the far-western land...
Province Government Visit Year: Inadequate infrastructure, yet Rs 50 million squandered
Gandaki Province and Province-5 have been engaged in squandering over Rs 50 million by organizing trivial events in the name...
Trafficked children are ‘invisible’ in the eyes of local authorities
Local authorities seem to be either ignorant or are circumventing the prevalence of increased child trafficking in rural municipalities. With...
Local governments of Surkhet and Achham: Rs 15 million spent on faulty village profiles
Local governments of Surkhet and Achham have spent over Rs 15 million on flawed village profiles. Concerned people in the...