VOL. 15, No. 20, June.03,2022 (Jestha 20. 2079) Publisher and Editor: Keshab Prasad Poudel Online Register Number: DOI 584/074-75
Published on: Jun 03, 2022
Articles
Lessons From The Local Elections 2022
The results of these local elections will be analyzed and parsed to great detail in the days and months ahead, especially since country-wide elections to the national parliament will have to be held in the coming six to eight months.
By Dipak Gyawali | Jun 03, 2022
Youths In Forefront Of Nature, Heritage Conservation
The youth participation in the recently concluded Shivapuri National Park Cleanup Campaign was highly impressive in that context. European Union, UN-Habitat and Cleanup Nepal had organized the event jointly in the framework of Europe Week 2022
By Sreejan Shrestha | Jun 03, 2022
ECOOKING Replacing LPG
After the announcement by Minister for Finance Janardan Sharma in his recent budget to provide subsidies for electric cooking, removing subsidies from LPG, Nepal’s clean cooking movement has entered a new phase. With the rising global oil prices and growing electricity production inside the home, minister Sharma has found the right time to save millions of dollars given as a subsidy to import the LPG. With the announcement of the new energy policy by the federal government, the response of local and provincial governments will determine how quickly the clean e-cooking campaign will move. As provincial and local level governments are key to making the transition of energy a success, how the new budgets of provincial and local governments address the issue will determine the future of the campaign
By Keshab Poudel | Jun 03, 2022
LOCAL POLLS: Independent Test
In a hegemony of six parties, which have been in the center of power as ruling and opposition since 2006, the rise of independent candidates, Balen Shah in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Hark Sampang Rai in Dharan and Gopal Hamal in Dhangadhi, is a new phenomenon of the recent local elections. Defeating the candidates of established political parties, which have complete control over state structures, financial resources and bureaucracy, voters chose independent candidates, who have shown their courage, to lead the metropolitan governments. However, big challenges before them will be to show that they are different from their predecessors
By A Correspondent | Jun 06, 2022
BUDGET 2022/023 Populist Package
At a time when the country’s economic indicators are in a bad shape due to the global conflict and COVID-19 pandemic, no one needed to analyze what Nepal’s annual budget for fiscal year 2022/023 would look like. Increasing salary, minister Janardan Sharma tried to woo the civil servants. Reducing the age limit for social welfare, the minister has made another effort to make political gains. Announcing dream projects like fast track, construction of mega airport and hydropower, the minister unknowingly is pushing Nepal to go to a financial debacle. Looking for the coming two elections, Minister Sharma presented a budget full of populist packages rather than saving the economy
By A Correspondent | Jun 06, 2022
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