State-1 next fiscal year budget to focus on health and education

Kathmandu - State-1 government Minister for Social Development, Jeevan Ghimire has said the budget for the next fiscal year would be centred more on health and education. He said this while speaking in an online news conference cum interaction organised by the Education Journalists Group (EJG) on Sunday.

Stating that the budgets before this used to be focussed on infrastructure, he shared the next fiscal year's budget would be concentrated on health and education. The State Minister said discussions have started for bringing the budget on the stipulated time, adding a large chunk of it would be spent on construction of health infrastructures for checking the coronavirus global pandemic.