MORANG, JULY 10

Biratnagar Metropolitan City has unanimously endorsed the budget for the next fiscal year.

The 10th Municipal Assembly meeting of the metropolis was held yesterday and passed the policy and programmes along with the budget for the next fiscal year.

The metropolis had, on June 24, unveiled a budget of 3.625 billion. The meeting also unanimously passed the Economic Bill, Appropriation Bill and the Sports Development Bill presented by Deputy Mayor Shilpa Nirala Karki.

Likewise, the meeting has made some important policy decisions, Chief Administrative Officer Umesh Basnet said. The same meeting constituted the Judicial Committee under the convenorship of Deputy Mayor Karki and the Account Committee under the convenorship of Assembly member Balram Karanjit.

On the occasion, Mayor Nagesh Koirala stressed the need to expand the scope of revenue collection for increasing the sources of income of the metropolis for the overall development of all wards of the city. He suggested increasing it to one billion rupees.

Mayor Koirala also said that discussions were on with the donor agencies for mobilising the budget for the construction of physical infrastructure and resolving problems related to drinking water, sanitation and inundation, among others.

A version of this article appears in the print on July 11, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.