Kathmandu, Jan. 13 -- The federal government has released Rs6.56 billion to local units for projects under the controversial Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme, which is implemented under the supervision of the lawmakers.
The budget was released to the local governments except for Parsa-3 after directly elected lawmaker from the constituency Hari Narayan Rauniyar was suspended due to corruption case filed against him, according to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration.
The federal government has allocated Rs40million each to 164 out of 165 constituencies as conditional grant to implement the projects under the programme. Of the total resources sent to the local levels, an estimated Rs13 million wil...