Kathmandu. After the Madhes state government banned the implementation of small schemes up to 10 lakh rupees to maintain financial discipline, the ministries are having problems to work. Due to the circular of the Ministry of Finance, many plans of various ministries have been stopped in the current financial year.
The Ministries have not been able to carry out small schemes since the Ministry of Finance sent letters to ministries, secretariats, commissions and other agencies on June 26 and June 2 not to implement new schemes up to 10 lakh rupees and to pay only for agreed schemes till June 25.
After the decision, most of the ministries, including the Ministry of Energy, Irrigation and Drinking Water, Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Land Management, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Sports and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health and Population, have had problems working.
The ministers of the relevant ministries have said that it is very difficult to work when the small projects included in the Red Book, such as construction, training, seminars, street plays are stopped. The Ministry of Finance invited proposals for those plans on 19 June.
Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Shyam Prasad Patel said that the work of the Ministry has come to a standstill when the Ministry of Finance blocked the scheme up to 1 million.
Most of the schemes of our ministry are small schemes. One is that the budget was implemented late, even while working on it, the Ministry of Finance stopped the plan up to 10 lakhs,” he said. “Until now, only 20 percent of the budget of our ministry has been spent. Even if this is the case, 90 percent of the work is not done on the capital side.’
He accused the finance ministry of opening and closing PLMBS of its own accord. “If you come and stop the plan now, the province will not run with such mercury, it will affect the farmers who are called agriculturalists,” he said.
Education and Culture Minister Manoj Kumar Singh said that 11 types of schemes included in the Red Book approved by the state assembly had to be stopped. “Most of the plans in our ministry are small,” he said.
Similarly, the Minister of Physical Infrastructure Development Mohammad Samir has also expressed his displeasure with the decision to freeze the budget. Stating that this decision of the Ministry of Finance has also affected the regular work of the Ministry, he said that the matter will be discussed in the Council of Ministers.
Energy, Irrigation and Water Supply Minister Jawaharlal Kushwaha has expressed his displeasure with the Ministry of Finance’s decision to stop the plan. “Because the budget has been frozen in the name of economic governance, most of the plans of our ministry have been stopped and the work has come to a standstill,” he says. Farmers have been directly affected when those schemes were stopped.
On June 19, the Ministry of Finance ordered to cut the budget from 20% to 50% in various schemes and to stop the schemes up to 10 lakhs. After pressure from all sides, the Ministry of Finance has backed away from the decision not to pay for the plans agreed after May 25.