26% development expenditure in 8 months: Nepal’s metropolitan cities struggle to walk the talk

As this fiscal year has just three months before it ends, the old trend of the federal government spending a large chunk of the development budget in these last months , especially in the last week, is expected to resurface. But the case with local governments is no different either. Eight months into the current fiscal year and the metropolitan cities are still struggling to pave a new path.

After federalism was introduced, it was hoped that the trend would not repeat in the local government at least. The metropolitan cities, which have the responsibility of spending the most on development budget, are struggling the same.