Improve the wards

The life of citizens living in villages is more difficult than the life of those in municipalities.

The Constitution of Nepal, 2015 has instituted a three-tier government: One federal, seven provincial and 753 local governments. Of the local governments, there are 293 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities. The six metropolitan and 11 sub-metropolitan cities fall under municipalities. There is no difference in the functional rights of a municipality or a rural municipality, a metropolitan city or a sub-metropolitan city. Wards form the smallest local government unit in the country, comprising 6,743 wards. Most former village development committees (VDC) have now been converted to wards.