3 decades on, development expenditure underspending continues to trouble Nepal

On December 17, 2021, Finance Minster Janardan Sharma called a meeting of all ministries involved in development works and told them that the development expenditure had to be 30 per cent by mid-January.

“If you will not use the budget, I will send it to where it will be used,” he said to all the ministers and secretaries from different ministries.