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Item Local Development Planning Issues and Challenges: With Special Reference to Nawalparasi District(Department of Rural Development, 2017) Gyawali, Mohan RajPlan is framework that details the methods and tasks that are to be implemented in order to achieve the goal. Good Planning indicates good result. Simply plan includes who, what, when, how does the task to achieve the desire goal. Local Self Governance Act 2055 and related regulations, guidelines and different bylaws are providing the legality to establish the practice of decentralization. Function, Fund and functionaries are provided to the local level elected mechanism by the concept of devolution. Conceptually local people elect their representatives on these units and they will take action on local level development planning for the happiness of local people. But unfortunately there are no elected representatives in local bodies since 2054. So there are difference practices in local level. The main objective of this study is to find out issues and challenges of local development planning of Nawalparasi district and the specific objectives are: to assess the present practices of local development planning, to analyze the demand and supply side perception on local development planning, to analyze the gaps of right holders and duty bearers on local development planning, to identify the problems, issues and challenges of local development planning. This study will be based on descriptive research design. Descriptive research design has been used to gather information about the research area used for collecting information about respondent’s views and ideas. This study has been focused on present practices, gaps, issues and challenges of the local development planning. This study measures that about half of the total programs at local level were demand base and rest were supply based. It also varies between local bodies, line agencies and NGOs. Most of the supply base programs have been also supporting to meet the public needs. Some gaps of right holders and duty bearers on local development planning has been found due to lack of sensitization of planning process of different development agencies. Variation on the participation of public in local development planning of different development agencies has been found where local bodies were found more participatory in comparison with line agencies and NGOs. The satisfaction level of right holder and duty bearer on local development planning process did not coincide. Right holders were less satisfied than duty bearers and it varies on different development agencies at local level. Public satisfaction level had been lower than the duty bearers and it differs in terms of the local bodies, line agencies and NGOs.. There are other so many issues found in terms of study relating to local development planning are mismatch of planning process of local bodies and line agencies, lack of elected local bodies, elite capture in every steps of local development planning, , lack of well targeting for development, lack of resources at local level, high administrative cost in NGOs, no sustainability of NGOs programs, lack of uniformity of expenditure norms at local level for all development agencies, and to mouth problems for ultra poor for participating in local development process, lack of harmonization of local development interventions, so many Structures/ groups at community level, lack of public ownership on development interventions. There are some challenges found at local level relating to local development planning which can be changes as opportunity for the local development planning are harmonization of local development interventions according to the LSGA by district development committee, well targeting of the beneficiaries for the development interventions of different local development programs, cost benefit analysis of local development programs planning and implementing by local bodies as well as NGOs, elimination of elite capturing in local development process, making permanent structure at community level to drive community level development interventions, development and implementation of unified norms for all development intervention at local level. This study has been recommended to launch sensitization programs targeting to the ultra poor and marginalized groups/community and planning and implementation should be made more participatory and inclusive at community level. The issues can be do upsized by establishment of well targeting mechanism through wellbeing ranking as well as updated database system at local level and implement capacity building programs for deprived and marginalized groups. It is better to harmonize the local development planning according as local self governance act and related guidelines and apply unified expenditure norms at local level and establish cost benefit analysis system of the projects at district level.