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Stakeholders, experts accuse centre of taking over local govts’ rights

Participants of interaction on the rights of local governments, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday, December 12, 2019.

Kathmandu, December 12

Stakeholders and experts working on local governance have accused that the federal government took over most rights of local governments provided by the 2015 constitution.

Speaking at an interaction in Kathmandu on Wednesday, a constitutional expert, Bipin Adhikari, presented a list of the rights given to the local units by the constitution but taken over by the federal government after enacting different laws. Adhikari warned that if the trend continued, the relevance of federalism would end soon.

Likewise, chairman of the National Association of Rural Municipalities in Nepal, Hom Narayan Shrestha, said ministers of federal and provincial governments were working as ‘small kings’ thereby keeping all rights with themselves.

Former lawmaker Krishna Prasad Sapkota, also an expert of local governance, said the constitution required the federal government to hand over all rights related to the agriculture sector to the local level, but the federal government did obey the provision.

 

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