Kathmandu, May 30: The major opposition, CPN-UML, has supported the budget, but with some reservations.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Krisha Bahadur Mahara presented the budget of Rs 1278 billion for the upcoming fiscal year at the Legislature-Parliament Monday.
Speaking to the media persons at the Parliament Building at New Baneshower following the budget presentation, former Finance Minister and UML’s leader Surendra Pandey commented that the timely presentation of budget was commendable. The constitution has mandated the date of 15th Jesth every year to present the budget.
Pandey viewed that the increment in the budget’s size could not affect in the inflation rate. He opined that the 13 issues accorded high priority in the budget were not mentioned clearly.
Stating that the positive aspect of the newly presented budget was that it would be released to the local level from the central level directly, Pandey grieved that the newly presented budget did not accommodate many popular policies and programmes forwarded by the UML-led government.
According to him, the budget allocated for the education sector was little as he argued that the investment on education was an investment on the bright future.
He, whoever, remarked that the agenda set for the implementation of the budget was its positive aspect.
Similarly, UML’s Prakash Jwala, Chairperson of the parliamentary committee of Finance, thanked DPM Mahara for taking the suggestions from the Committee into consideration while presenting the budget.
Lauding the provision in the budget for financial transfer from the centre to the local level, he too voiced his concern for removing the UML’s popular programmes as ‘Build Your Village Yourself’ and ‘Build Your Own City’ among others.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) leader and parliamentarian Dilanath Giri criticized the budget as just a document with no more than continuity.
Similarly, former Finance Minister and Nepali Congress leader Dr Ram Sharan Mahat viewed that the budget was presented by the caretaker government and did not have clear vision of the distribution of budget.
Mahat said, “There are plenty of programmes in the budget for financial transfer but does not mention much about the administrative mechanism for the same. It may result in problems in its implementation.”
Former Finance Minister and NC leader Mahesh Acharya suggested for the attention on implementation part of the budget, indicating the size of the budget. RSS
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