Kathmandu, June 1 : Lawmakers of ruling parties have defended the budget, saying it was positive and reflected the true picture of the national economy while parliamentarians from the opposition parties criticized it citing it was against the sentiments and aspiration of federalism and aspiration.
The government had on May 29 unvieled the budget for fiscal year 2018/19.
Taking part in the discussion at National Assembly, lawmakers– Deepa Gurung and Shnati Kumari GC expressed the view that the budget has immense possibility to materialize the slogan of development and prosperity.
Similarly, Dhana Kumari Khatiwada and Pramila Kumari said that the budget could not give development and prosperity to the country while Khim Kumar Bishwokarma stressed the need of effective implementation of the plans like creating employment to 500,000 youths and modernizing agriculture.
Likewise, Brishesh Chnandra Lal criticized the budget, saying it was brought on the basis of centralized concept while Indu Kadariya complained that that the budget failed to incorporate the issue of smart village.
Saying though the incumbent government is very powerful, it unveiled very weak budget, Anita Devkota said that the budget itself proved wrong to white paper, while Ramprit Paswan said that the budget has not incorporated any plan and programme of landless squatters.
Lawmaker Komal Oli supported the budget saying there is not any doubt about its implementation.
Brinda Devi Alemagar and Tara Devi Bhatta criticised the allocation of ‘more’ budget for the Office of Prime Minister instead of local and provincial levels as undermining the spirit of federal setup.
Chakra Prasad Snehi, Kamala Devi Oli and Ram Chandra Rai hailed the budget as something that would help uplift the lifestyle of the people, while Snehi urged the opposition to help implement the budget. The meeting is on.
