Surkhet. The Karnali Province government has frozen the budget of more than Rs 12.5 billion for the current fiscal year as it failed to spend it on time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Karnali Province Financial Comptroller Office, out of the total budget of Rs 33.19 billion, only Rs <\/p>\n
20.57 billion has been spent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only <\/p>\n
61.97 per cent of the total budget has been spent. The remaining Rs 12.62 billion has been frozen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Karnali Province Treasury and Account Control Office, the Karnali Province government has spent Rs 9.25 billion out of Rs 12.59 billion in recurrent expenditure. This is 73.4 <\/p>\n
8 percent of the total budget. Out of Rs 19.98 billion for capital expenditure, the Karnali government has spent Rs 11.13 billion for capital expenditure. This is 55.74 percent of the capital expenditure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, which has the highest budget, has shown the least progress.<\/p>\n
Out of Rs 11.01 billion, only Rs 5.41 billion was spent, while the overall expenditure progress of the ministry was limited to 49.20 per cent. Out of Rs 15.28 billion, only 60 percent has been spent. <\/p>\n
Similarly, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment has spent Rs 1.<\/p>\n
56 billion out of a budget of Rs 2.42 billion. According to the Treasury and Account Control Office, the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy Development has spent Rs 2.91 billion out of the allocated budget of Rs 3.83 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Similarly, the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives has spent Rs 1.46 billion 78 lakh 75 thousand 259.<\/p>\n
The ministry had a budget of Rs 2.57 billion. Out of the allocated budget of Rs 5.97 billion, the Ministry of Social Development has spent Rs 4.32 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law has spent Rs 66,<\/p>\n
414,242 in the current fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ministry had a total budget of Rs 709,01,442. Similarly, the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers has spent Rs 33,67,80,884. It had a total budget of Rs 60,96,19,558. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Surkhet. The Karnali Province government has frozen the budget of more than Rs 12.5 billion for the current fiscal year as it failed to spend it on time.\u00a0 According to the Karnali Province Financial Comptroller Office, out of the total budget of Rs 33.19 billion, only Rs 20.57 billion has been spent.\u00a0 Only 61.97 perContinue reading “Karnali Province freezes budget of over Rs 12.5 billion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":75730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo-1_c7273df6.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75743,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75742\/revisions\/75743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}