KATHMANDU, Feb 25: At a time when there are complaints that the provincial structure has only increased the burden of expenses for the country, questions have been raised on the capacity of the provincial governments to work. All the seven provincial governments have failed to spend their budgets. Not being able to spend the budget means not being able to work as needed, say experts.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: The government is under pressure to lower the size of the projected expenditure for the current fiscal year, citing a massive shortfall in revenue collection.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: The government fell short of Rs 69.07 billion in managing its expenditure compared to the total receipts in the first five months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: The government took borrowing worth Rs 106.78 billion in the first three months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The status of the government's revenue collection and expenditure in the first three months of the current fiscal year is not encouraging as the collection is just 15.93 percent of the annual target and the expenditure is 16.02 percent.

KATHMANDU, Aug 13: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) said it spent about Rs 48 billion in the past two years on infrastructure related to distribution and maintenance of electricity supply.

KATHMANDU, July 13: Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Surendra Raj Acharya has said the ministry's capital expenditure is low with the construction of elderly and child homes not in progress.

KATHMANDU,  July 9: The provinces have spent only half of their budget till June 15 of the current Fiscal Year 2022/23. Of the total budget of Rs 306 billion that the provinces passed for the current fiscal year, they have spent only Rs 151.3 billion till June 15, which accounts for 49.45 percent of the total annual allocations.

KATHMANDU, May 15: Fiscal deficit is increasing as the government’s revenue collection is lower than its expenditure.

Nepal has been grappling with a longstanding issue that has held back its development - the lack of effective implementation of development projects. Despite the country receiving assistance from the international community including multilateral development partners such as the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Nepal has struggled to make satisfactory capital expenditure and meet its growth targets.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The code of conduct for presidential and vice-presidential elections is being enforced. The code of conduct will be enforced from Wednesday (March 1) to March 19 after the publication of the final list of candidates at 5 pm. The presidential election is being held on March 23 and the vice-presidential election on March 3.

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: The government has decided to cut down unnecessary expenses to maintain a fiscal balance that has become vulnerable due to the gap in government expenditure and income.

KATHMANDU, September 18: The government was able to spend 5.46 percent of its earmarked budget of Rs 1.64 trillion in the first two months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, June 5: The government spent Rs 23.16 billion as of mid-May on the measures to check the spread of COVID-19 and treatment of the patients.

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: Details of the expenses made to host the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) held last year are being publicized on Sunday nearly after a year of its completion.

KATHMANDU, Aug 5: Madhesi Commission has spent over Rs 30 million to conduct a series of training and orientation programs in various districts in the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, June 27: At least 149 local units have failed to unveil their annual budget within the deadline set by the Local Government Operation Act, according to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA).

NEPALGUNJ, June 26: Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City has unveiled a total annual budget of Rs 2.28 billion for the Fiscal Year 2019/20, with Rs 1.21 billion in current expenditure and Rs 1.04 billion in capital expenditure.

KATHMANDU, May 28: Tourism is a priority sector of the government. But outcomes of the sector in recent year have been below expectations.

The present economic model of Nepal has a number of interesting structural characteristics. First, it focuses on imports. The government gets most of its revenue from import which is the basis for financing public expenditure, mostly regular expenditure necessary for the functioning of the state. In an import-based revenue structure, there is an embedded incentive to maintain luxury imports.

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.

KATHMANDU, April 10: The National Planning Commission (NPC) has projected a total of Rs 9.96 trillion of public spending in the next five years during the implementation of the country’s fifteenth plan.

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KATHMANDU, Sept 3: The fourth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was concluded last week.

KHOTANG, June 5: The provincial and federal elections were held months ago but five candidates of those elections in Khotang district have not submitted their election expense details till date.

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KATHMANDU, May 27: Banking institutions that are facing shortage of lendable fund are now feeling a sigh of relief with the recent rise of stock of deposits as the government expedites development expenditures at the end of the fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, April 16: The management of offerings made to temples is not transparent and records of their incomes and expenditures are not maintained properly, much like in other public offices in the country that are not playing it by the book, say government auditors.

KATHMANDU, April 13: Government expenditures not in accordance with procedure is increasing with each passing year, but the amount to be recovered from them and other individuals or parties, who have received taxpayers' money, is going down, an analysis of audit reports of the government spending of past three years, including FY 2016/17, shows.

KATHMANDU, Mar 4: The Election Commission (EC) has set Rs 400,000 as election expenses for a candidate contesting the presidential election set for March 13.

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The Election Commission (EC) has asked National Assembly election candidates to submit details of poll expenditures soon.

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KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Former Vice-Chairman of National Planning Commission and Economic Expert Dr Shankar Sharma has said unhealthy competition among the political parties in hiking elderly allowance will have adverse impact on the country’s economy in the long run.

GULMI, Jan 26: Most of the candidates who contested the parliamentary and provincial elections of December 7 have submitted the details of their election expenses to the District Election Office (DEO), Gulmi following the instruction of the Election Commission (EC) to furnish the details within 35 days of the elections. Surprisingly, the expenses of the losing candidates are comparatively higher than that of the winning candidates.

GULMI, Jan 25: Most of the candidates who contested the parliamentary and provincial elections of December 7 have submitted the details of their election expenses to the District Election Office (DEO), Gulmi following the instruction of the Election Commission (EC) to furnish the details within 35 days of the elections.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: The Election Commission has so far received income and expenditure details from 107 political parties so far.

The election expenditure of Puspa Kamal Dahal is put at Rs 994,542. Similarly, Dahal’s nearest rival, Bikram Pandey, of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) submitted the election expenditure details of Rs 939,940, according to the District Election Office.

KATHMANDU, Jan 17: The government has met the target of revenue collection but spending in development projects remains very low.

CHITWAN, Jan 15: Furnishing the election expenses to the District Election Office (DEO), Chitwan, CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that he spent less than Rs 1 million in his election campaign.

KATHMANDU, Dec 31: The Election Commission has directed the political parties and candidates of the recently held elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assemblies to submit details of their election expenditure.

KATHMANDU, July 25: Lawmakers have said that the government should pursue a reward and punishment approach to effectively implement the budget and boost capital expenditure.

KATHMANDU, July 17: The Election Commission (EC) has said it has so far spent Rs 6.3 billion under the heading of the local-level elections.

RASUWA, July 14:  Even after so many days since the completion of the first phase of local elections, as many as 396 candidates of Rasuwa are yet to submit the election expenditure.

SURKHET, July 14: Newly-elected local representatives will not be able to contest for the position of District Coordination Committee if they do not furnish their election expenditure details to the district election office.

KATHMANDU, July 6: Discussions on the appropriation bill are continuous in the parliament for few days. Speaking in today's meeting of the Legislature-Parliament, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party lawmakers Prem Suwal and Dilli Prasad Kafle proposed to cut the expenditure amount allocated for different nine ministries.

KATHMANDU, July 6: Discussions on the appropriation bill are continuous in the parliament for few days.

KATHMANDU, June 21: The government, Nepal's development partners and economists have expressed serious concern over the low capital expenditure that is limited to just 25 per cent when 24 days are left for the current fiscal year to come to an end.

KATHMANDU, June 1: The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport spent nearly 60 per cent of its total expenditure budget till May.

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POKHARA, May 9: The Election Commission (EC) has set ceilings on expenditures that candidates competing in local elections at various levels can make. According the directive, mayoral and deputy mayoral candidates of a metropolitan city have been given the maximum budget ceiling of Rs 750,000.