Local-level officials gift grants-in-aid to themselves
Elected representatives benefit the cooperatives they are associated with by providing them with hefty sums in the form of grants. ...
Government reallocates Rs 25 billion, turns a blind eye to villages devoid of telephone services
The government has reallocated Rs 25 billion accumulated in the Rural Telecommunication Development Fund meant for expanding telecom services in...
For Chhangru and Tinkar locals, livelihood comes before national borders
The lack of health centres, schools and roads in the villages means that the villagers have to walk for days...
Provincial Lawmakers’ Development Fund: Contract signed in May/June, and development work done in June/July
Lawmakers of the Sudurpashchim Province are preparing to complete development work in June/July after their contracts were signed in May/June....
स्थानीय सरकारमा बेथितिः अनुदान दिंदै, आफैं लाभ लिंदै
स्थानीय सरकारका जनप्रतिनिधिहरू आफैं संलग्न सहकारीलाई अनुदान दिंदै त्यही अनुदानबाट आफैं लाभ लिंदै गर्न थालेका छन् ।आकाश क्षेत्री: खोज पत्रकारिता...
Why Kathmandu’s land prices continue to skyrocket
Nepal’s moneyed classes, aided by unscrupulous banks and an irresponsible government, have turned land into a quickly tradeable commodity. Rudra...
Police to replace tear gas with water cannons
Nepal Police says, “water cannons will be used to disperse crowds after questions were raised about use of tear gas.”...
Authorities in Bajura indulge in foul play while distributing relief materials
As Covid-19 continues to spread, a section of unscrupulous authorities and people's representatives of the Balimalika Municipality of Bajura are...
Public disinterest litigations
Over the past 25 years, Nepal’s governments have blatantly ignored court decisions, especially on public interest petitions.
Local level authorities win people’s hearts during hard times
Amid stark criticism from several quarters of the federal and provincial governments for failing to execute its commitments, 11 local...
Nepal quarantines hotspots for disease
Western Nepal may be seeing spike in COVID-19 as returnees from India head home without tests.
Lamjung farmers left in the lurch as those with 'access' usurp agricultural grants-in-aid
Beneficiaries butcher goats and pigs they received as part of the grant-in-aid program as authorities look away.Aas Gurung: Centre for...
Authorities in Bajhang pocketing money by creating fake labors
Local authorities have stooped so low as to forging documents showing a one-year-old baby receiving a salary.
Misplaced priorities: Wasting public money on view towers amid the Covid-19 pandemic
All three levels of government have been wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money by earmarking over Rs 2.5 billion to erect useless...
Castles in the air
Buyers of units in high-rises and colonies continue to get ripped off by developers because the authorities have turned a...
In Saptari, a Covid-19 relief package for all but the poor
A dead man is purported to have received the relief package even as over 200 destitute families returned home empty-handed...
Federalism in action: How Belaka Municipality is ushering development
The Belaka Municipality in Nepal’s eastern Udaypur district, once struggling to get basic facilities, has set a perfect example with...
Target groups bear the brunt of Covid-19
Budgets allocated by local governments to support socially and culturally disadvantaged women, Dalits, persons with disabilities and other target groups...