Half of local governments have failed to receive first instalment of federal grants

Kathmandu has not sent the first tranche of federal grants to many local governments for not submitting the transaction details from the last fiscal year.

Around half of the country’s local governments have failed to receive much of the grants that they are supposed to receive from the federal government in the first quarter of this fiscal year due to their failure to submit transaction details of the last fiscal year amid the coronavirus pandemic.