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....
Nepali language poses challenge to local level
Local representatives of province 2 face difficulty in delivering services at local level because legal documents are only in Nepali.-Gopal...
Crusher industries: A deep-rooted nexus
Unbridled extraction of sand, gravel, and boulders from the river beds in Dhading with the involvement of local representatives is...
Local representatives swindle funds meant for flood victims
The government allocated 50 million rupees for the victims of the flooding that devastated Jadaha Rural Municipality of Morang district...
Fund for lawmakers scheme infringes on Constitution
By allocating development budget to lawmakers, the provincial government has not only stepped into the jurisdiction of local bodies, it...
School merger at behest of people’s representatives
Since the handover of school education charge to the local government, people’s representatives, who are political party cadres, have started...
Exemplary work of two ward chairmen in Bajura
Gaumul Rural Municipality in Bajura has shown that visible progress in society is possible if the local level is actively...
Fraud in foreign jobs: Agents swindle two billion rupees in two years
Remittance is the backbone of Nepal’s economy, but the foreign employment sector has committed billions of rupees in fraud and...
Destruction in the name of development
The rampant use of dozers has caused loss of land and damage to trees affecting the ecological balance in Bajhang...
Local representatives, contractors, join hands to exploit rivers
Strongly backed by local representatives, contractors have applied their monopoly to exploit rivers of Dang district.-Devendra Basnet : Centre for...