Nepal spends when the rain arrives, then it washes all away.

We are likely to witness a massive waste of taxpayer money this fiscal year as well.

If the past is any guide, in the matter of some weeks, one of the most hard-up nations in the world, i.e., our very own, will be using money from our strained national treasury to literally flush it down the drain. That will happen with what has been termed asare bikas or ‘development done in the month of Asar’, the last one in our fiscal year, when there is a mad scramble to spend earmarked funds.