Budget Implementation Dispute Halts Payments in Suryagadhi Rural Municipality

Kathmandu. A dispute over budget implementation and payment has escalated in Suryagadhi Rural Municipality of Nuwakot. This dispute pits the rural municipality chairman and the chief administrative officer on one side, and the accounting branch on the other. As the dispute intensified, accounting officer Sampada Neupane has sent a written letter to Chief Administrative Officer Rahul Kumar Upadhyay.

Accounting officer Neupane has sent a written letter to Chief Upadhyay stating that she has not received details to enter the budget of the current fiscal year 2083/084 into the system. In the letter sent by accounting officer Neupane to the Chief Administrative Officer on Asar 13, it is mentioned that although the budget was presented in the village assembly on Asar 5, the budget by title has not been provided to the accounting branch to date.