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Experts have warned that the continuous delay in giving a passage to the budget will relegate Nepal into a failed state.

"If the budget is not passed on time, there will be no government in principle," said Dr Chiranjivi Nepal.

The delay in passing the budget has affected basic services of 26 district hospitals and government-run schools and colleges.

Eight ministries, including Local Development, Finance, Home Affairs, Defense, Commerce and Supply are also reeling under fund crisis. The delay is affecting development works and the financial market also.

Some 35 development projects across the country have stalled due to lack of timely budget allocation.

Mainly medium-size development projects under the Department of Road and Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and small town development and drinking water projects had been hard hit due to lack of the budget.

The government has proposed Rs. 150.34 billion for development related expenses for the current fiscal year

Professor Bishwomber Pyakural predicted that if the crisis deepened further, it would invite social unrest.

The budget crisis has affected 450,000 people - civil servants, police and army - and 200,000 pension holders and their families numbering around 3 million people. Millions of people are facing the problem of bread and butter, he added. nepalnews.com

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<< Begin < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >> << Begin < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >> Janata   |113.199.163.xxx |2009-11-20 07:42:26 I hope Maobadis read these comments. Bahadur Nepaliharulai Darpok Nepali banai diyauyi Maobadile. Hami sabailai thaha chha hamro desh FAILED STATE bhai sakyo. Luta, khub luta katti samma sakdo rahechhau. Hami pani timiharulai tyahi Nepali jhanda boki hatma khukuri li khedne chhau ra luteko dhan sampatti phirta li JAN ADALATma ubhaune chhau. Deshlai sahi gati dine bhaneko ta FAILED STATEma poparinat garechhau hai. Ricky  - failed state??   |113.199.185.xxx |2009-11-20 07:05:36 wHAT do you mean by might relegate into failed state?....Nepal has been a failed state since last 15 years.....hoina ra?... nepali  - traitors   |121.202.253.xxx |2009-11-20 00:38:38 Political Animals ... i i know what you are trying to do.. my counrty has been a failed state ever sice you CANCER LIKE CREATURE invaded . Now you know your GOVT could kick the bucket anytime because your own POLITICAL ANIMALS want to savatage you . In this scenario what you can do is get the budget shorted out and before you are dethroned you run off with chunk of national wealth . You POLITICAL ANIMALS ae something. Anyway do want you want like what you have been doning because your excuse is stupid enough to hypnotise the poor Neplese but to me you are selfless , ruthless and criminal who should be punished by hand till death or death by injection . Even better POLITICAL ANIMALS are to be punished by thrown to the lions cage . Anonymous  - Bad luck to the people !   |98.253.59.xxx |2009-11-19 21:43:29 Good luck to the moraless parties. Anonymous   |94.0.126.xxx |2009-11-19 16:18:26 Dr. Baburavan Bhattarai should have thought many times before entering into the political domain. His job was to create the infrastructure for the country. But, his venture into politics suggests the fact that his PhD in architecture is fake. By the way, all indian qualifications are mostly fake. Pro-King   |94.0.126.xxx |2009-11-19 16:14:13 It is good to see so many positive comments for Nepal when there was King in the country. We, indeed, need Monarchy in the country. Without Monarchy, there will be no one to hold the reign of the country. without a King, Nepal is like a ship without a captain. we need a captain to sail this ship in the right direction. His Majesty Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, even though there are allegations against him, is the right man to lead the country. Nepalese people should not forget the fact that Maoists removed the King, not His Majesty King Gyanendra. Maoists undid what our Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah put together nearly three centuries ago. Stephen Mikesell  - It is Not Question of "Failed State"   |76.201.155.xxx |2009-11-19 16:02:17 The question should not be whether Nepal is becoming a "failed state," a designation which today seems to be an excuse for intervention by the United Nations and other bi-lateral and super-national insutions of corporate governance. Rather, the question should be whether, why and how the Nepal state is failing its people and what and how they are going to do about it. Many states which aren't called "failed states" are nevertheless failing their people because they've become captured by outside interests: foreign governments, regimes of finance and commerce and so forth (what in more honest times was called "colonization" and "empire"). Yes, they maintain stability, but serve up their people, lands and resources on a platter to the market. The real reason that the Nepal government appears to be in "crisis" is that it is failing its people. This is not because programs aren't wor... Anonymous  - was better before   |86.144.66.xxx |2009-11-19 15:12:17 "OLD" Nepal was Better than so called "NEW" Nepal. trebron  - Nepal might relegate into failed state   |92.117.201.xxx |2009-11-19 13:08:48 Why "might...."? gorakhnathgorkhali@yahoo.com  - Really a failed state.   |118.94.22.xxx |2009-11-19 12:39:46 Nepal When became New than It has made failed by the politicians. Nepal is a failed state. Leaders and its people are in a state of mutilising it in the name of federal and ethnical state. Nepal is a best example of failed state. Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26

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