Ghorahi Sub-Metropolis unveils budget of Rs 2.15 billion

DEUKHURI: Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City has presented a budget of Rs 2.15 billion for the coming fiscal year 2023/24. Deputy Mayor of Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City, Huma Kumari DC, unveiled a budget of Rs 2.15 billion with Rs 1.28 billion recurrent expenditure and Rs 875.14 million capital expenditure at the 13th Municipal Assembly on Sunday. The size of the budget for coming fiscal year has decreased by 7.45% as compared to the current fiscal year 2022/23. The sub-metropolis had presented a budget of Rs 2.32 billion for the current fiscal year. Of the total budget, Rs 1.28 billion has been allocated for recurrent expenditure and Rs 875.14 million for capital expenditure. Of the budget, Rs 765.9 million will be received from the federal government and Rs 47.85 million from Lumbini Province government as a conditional grant. The budget has been prepared prioritising the construction of educational physical infrastructure, increasing quality of education through volunteer teachers, bringing deep water boring projects into operation for the expansion of irrigation facility, strengthening the capacity of health institutions and expanding basic health services, said Deputy Mayor DC. The budget has also set a target of making sustainable and balanced development of all sectors as per the integrated urban development model, blacktopping main roads of wards, improving living standards through economic and social development, making the journey of development, prosperity and social justice more dynamic ending all types of social and financial discrimination, making public service delivery easy and smooth, promoting good governance through people's participation in development and helping to reduce poverty. By RSS READ ALSO:

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