Rs 336.2m budget for Lalitpur DDC

Lalitpur, March 23:

The Lalitpur District Development Committee has approved a budget of Rs 336.20 million for the coming fiscal year 2006-07. Badri Bahadur KC, chairperson of Lalitpur DDC presented the budget during the 14th district council meet. KC said the budget has been hiked from Rs 157.79 million in order to focus on infrastructural development of southern parts of Lalitpur.

“Of the budget, around Rs 150 millon will be allocated to connecting rural areas to urban Lalitpur,” said KC. Links to educational institutes, health posts, agricultural projects and rural projects are also on the anvil, he said.

He added the project includes gravelled Kanti Rajpath, Lele-Chandanpur macadamised.