An analysis of socio-economic impact of investment on roads (a case study of local bodies investment on rural roads Kurule Tenupa VDC, Dhankuta)

Abstract

The present research makes an effort to analyze the local bodies' investment on Rural Roads at local level. This research is descriptive one, based on the primary and secondary sources of data. The data for the study was randomly collected from the users' groups and records of VDC office. The required data were collected using observation as the data collection tool. The outcomes derived from the record of VDC, Rural Road users' committee and the source of respondents were listed, tallied and tabulated on the basis of data and linguistic characteristics. An effort has been made firstly to analyze the budget allocated by VDC, DDC and people participation. After that, the budget was analysed in comparison with the total budget and the budget used for dozer used. secondly, the budget allocated by VDC and DDC was analysed during five fiscal years since FY 2065-66 upto 2069-70. Therefore, the research has found out the total investment of local bodies in the sector of rural road construction. The main objectives of this research are to find out the budget allocation by local bodies on rural road construction at VDC for rural development and to access the participation of local people on rural road construction. The research found out the investment of local bodies to construct rural roads for rural development. The main findings of this research is local bodies has regularly invested and allocated some budget to rural road construction but the local bodies don't regularly funding to some roads and there is very difficult to continue to maintain the rural roads by users' committee without investment of local bodies. The investment of local bodies had spent for dozer used to construct the roads by users' committee The total number of roads identified in the VDC, the investment of local bodies to rural roads was in priority. This research has found out that the main priority to develop rural area is to construct rural roads. Though the regular budget flow has seen to rural roads, the roads are not maintain regularly and the corruption is seen during the development work.