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...
President’s Women Upliftment Programme fails in its mission as eight new mothers die in Taplejung in a year
Sixteen women have died in Taplejung in the past three years from excessive bleeding while delivering babies at home. Health...
Anomalies in local governments’ purchases
The Public Procurement Monitoring Office under the Prime Minister’s Office says local federal administrations are buying arbitrarily, breaching legal provisions...
Employee crunch at local levels; Service seekers deprived of amenities
It’s been two-and-a-half years that people’s representatives took charge of the local levels. However, these local units are still a...
Dreadful condition of violence against women in province 2
In the eight districts of Province 2, number of the cases of violence against women have seen a steep rise...
Impoverished Province 2 and Sudurpaschim spend Rs 2 billion on temples and shrines alone
Planning booklets of local federal units and records of concerned provincial ministries show the two provinces with low development indicators...
Judicial Committees’ decisions continue to get revoked in courts
Decisions made by Judicial Committees mandated to adjudicate, arbitrate and refer cases for mediation, get revoked by courts.Devendra Basnet: Centre...
User committee mere pass-through, work to contractors
A revelation of how Lamkichuha Municipality of Kailali has been hoodwinking the people and the authorities by awarding contracts to...
Under the guise of humanitarian aid, high-profile paedophiles are abusing Nepali children
Loose laws, illiteracy and poverty, along with an unsuspicious welcome of foreigners, have turned Nepal into a haven for Western...
Improving education, Barbardiya Municipality’s way
Barbardiya Municipality in Bardiya has brought about visible changes in public education. After funding a public education reform campaign by...
Illegal excavation puts settlement at risk
People’s representatives at the local level are active in the extraction and supply of boulders, sand and aggregate. A case...
Nepal’s new loan sharks
How a cabal of moneylenders and real estate brokers have pulled six farmers of Kaski, a rich landlord of Kathmandu...
Greed at its peak: Elected local representatives pocketing allowances unlawfully
Local-level representatives have mired in the culture of the greed of receiving bloated allowances, and perks – a gesture of...
A non-existent person wins case in court stunning entire village folks
In what can be dubbed as a stupendous verdict, the District Court, Rupandehi gave its verdict in favor of a...
Judicial Committees: Lack of capacity, expertise, and clarity
If the statistics of five municipalities --Budanilakantha, Mahalaxmi, Tokha, Dhulikhel, and Surya Binayak -- within the Kathmandu Valley are to...
Government at all levels diverting development funds to buy new vehicles
In what can be termed as a flagrant blow to the law, government authorities appear to be glued onto the...