KATHMANDU, Dec 10: Five local governments have failed to unveil their annual budget even in five months after the start of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: A total of 35 local levels are still deprived of the electricity supplied via the national transmission lines.

KATHMANDU, August 10: A total of 69 local governments have failed to announce their budgets on time this year despite the constitutional provisions that require these sub-national governments to introduce their annual budgets by June 24 (Asadh 10) every year.

KATHMANDU, May 27: A total of 14,402 women have been elected out of 55,699 women candidates in the local bodies from the recently held election, the Election Commission (EC) shared as per the details received so far. This accounts for 40.89 percent of the total elected representatives.

KATHMANDU, April 25: Although the Constitution has made it mandatory for the sub-national governments to introduce their annual budget by June 24 (Asadh 10) every year along with their financial plan to the government within the prescribed time, a number of local bodies are found defying the state’s law.

POKHARA, March 30: The then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Pokhara Regional International Airport on April 13, 2016. The Chinese company China CAMCE, which took over the construction of the airport with the target of completing it by July 10, 2021, started the work one and a half years after the foundation stone was laid. In the meantime, the COVID-19 pandemic spread. However, the Chinese company continued to accelerate construction.

Democracy seems to delight people only as long as they feel they are getting fast, fair and free services from the local bodies.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has said it received the largest number of complaints against irregularities related to federal affairs and local governments in 2019/20.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The National Association for Rural Municipalities in Nepal (NARMN), an umbrella organization of local bodies in the country, has decided to start lobbying the provincial governments to revise laws pertaining to service and facilities of local representatives.

KATHMANDU, Sept. 1: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel said on Sunday that the government is making preparations to set up well-equipped libraries at all local bodies.

LALITPUR, Aug 31: The Lalitpur Metropolitan City has come up to take responsibility for the continuation of Bagmati River clean-up campaign.

KATHMANDU, July 31: Despite criticism from local entrepreneurs and tourism committee members, Changunarayan and Mandan Deupur municipalities have been adamant on charging service fee from Nagarkot visitors where even basic facilities such as public toilet has not been built.

KATHMANDU, April 13: Unsettled expenditure of the local bodies has increased by a whopping 150 percent in the fiscal year 2017/18 to Rs 21.74 billion as compared to the previous year.

Since our mission was inclusive development, we were well received by people and representatives of local bodies throughout the journey.

KATHMANDU, Nov 16: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) on Thursday decided to hand over the responsibility to the local bodies to develop the unified settlements containing at most 99 houses.