HoR session: MPs call for mobilizing budget on projects yielding maximum results

Kathmandu: Nepali Congress lawmaker Gyanendra Bahadur Karki has said the budget for the coming fiscal year should be focused on infrastructure, yielding results.

He stressed the need to mobilize the budget for such projects that give maximum results from limited sources. Taking part in a discussion on the principles and priorities of the Appropriation Bill in a meeting of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Karki said the budget should be inclusive, sustainable, result-oriented and beneficial for the people.

The government should focus its attention on the matter of creating employment while making the budget, he argued. ‘There is a challenge in how to get maximum results from limited sources. Policy-level clarity, increase in implementation capacity and result-oriented plans are the demands of the country’ said Karki.

Stating that more than 3,000 glaciers of the country are melting rapidly posing threat of flood, he urged the government to take concrete initiatives to reduce impacts of climate change. Similarly, Gokarna Raj Bista of the CPN (UML) has expressed the view that the budget for coming fiscal year should be presented with an objective of resolving problems of economic development of the country.

He welcomed the bill, saying it has the objective of building socialism-oriented independent and prosperous economy by ending economic disparity

. Bista laid emphasis on the need of maintaining budget discipline, adding the budget should have arrangement of creating employment in the country, making young generation skilled through the medium of technology and producing human resources as per the demand of labour market.

Appreciating the government’s thinking of moving ahead addressing the demand of power in winter season keeping construction of Budhigandaki, Uttarganga hydropower projects in priority, he asked the government to allocate budget to this effect. Bista mentioned that priorities and principles of the budget for the overall economic development of the country are realistic.

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