People's participation: Working together for development
The Dhulikhel Municipality has adopted a local approach to get things done for people at the local levels. Moreover, engaging...
Bhaktapur as an example in health and education
The praises that Bhaktapur Municipality has earned by providing educational and health services for the town residents could be a...
The Nepal-Gulf human trafficking nexus
Nepal is a source country for human trafficking. In the past, women were trafficked mainly to supply the sex trade...
Chief justice’s order puts public land worth Rs 2 billion in the hands of an individual
Revelation of the bench involving chief justice candidate Deepak Raj Joshee ordering registration of the 36 ropani 6 anna land...
Five exemplary works by local bodies
At a time when local bodies have come under criticism for failing to solve local problems, there are a few...
Fate of local government: Ranipokhari to Nepal Army
The Ranipokhari saga explains how people's representatives and local governments are hell-bent on creating anarchism, and not strengthening rule of...
People bear the brunt of dispute between mayor and deputy mayor
Dispute among local representatives has badly affected regular service of the local bodies. Development works have been stalled; people have...
No feeling of local government in villages
Service seekers compelled to trudge to meet their representatives, ironically! These representatives prefer to engage and expand their own businesses...
Kathmandu Metropolitan City: Plans exist only on paper
After he was elected the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Bidhya Sundar Shakya had announced an ambitious 200-point plan. One...
Buying and selling of govt. land on the basis of unofficial agreement
Marketplaces and other infrastructure have been developed on substantial chunks of government land, which have been encroached upon. Such lands...
Undeserved allowances: Staffs at local bodies continue to receive allowances despite objection
Civil servants at local bodies mark services within office hours as additional work so they could draw up to 50...
स्थानीय तहमा बेथिति : तलबको आधा भत्ता
कार्यालय समयमा दिएको सेवालाई समेत अतिरिक्त काम देखाएर ५० प्रतिशतसम्म भत्ता लिने प्रवृत्ति स्थानीय तहमा व्यापक छ ।-अमृता अनमोल :...
Commendable work of people’s representatives
With some initiatives of the people’s representatives, youths here have got citizenship, which they had been devoid of for years....
When crusher operators and local representatives collude to plunder
How a crushing plant operator managed to satisfy local representatives, political parties and government offices to continue their illegal business?...
Local level: Legal breaches everywhere
Disregard for the law has been commonplace at the local level. An example is the failure to table the budget...
State mechanism abets Rs 5 billion loot from poor Nepalis
How was Rs 5 billion collected from Malaysia-bound Nepali workers in the involvement of government agencies? Revelation of the strange...
Follow up: Haphazard use of dozers wreak havoc
Call it an act of man, the haphazard use of earthmoving equipment has created a mind-boggling spectrum of disasters in...
Untouchability Offence: Local bodies put victims under pressure to patch up
The Dalits of Jhapa district haven’t felt any difference between the previous village development committee and the new local government....