An analysis of budget allocation to target groups and people participation at VDC council meeting (a case study of local bodies in Dhankuta district by using right to information act)
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2015
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The present research makes an effort to analyze the local bodies' council
meeting decision for allocating budget to target groups and the participation
at VDC council meeting. This research is descriptive one, based on the
secondary sources of data. The data for the study was collected by
seeking written information about VDC council meeting decisions using
RTI act 2007 from the VDCs and their records.
The required data were collected using RTI application as the data collection
tool. The outcomes derived from the record of VDCs, budget allocation at VDC council meeting and the participation of local stakeholders 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 council meeting and
people participation at the meeting. After that, the budget was analysed in mparison with inter-VDC decision to allocate the budget for five fiscal years since FY 2066-67 upto 2070-71. Therefore, the research has found out the total investment of local bodies in the sector of target groups, which is the main rovision
of the guidelines.
The main objectives of this research are to find out the budget allocation
by local bodies on target groups at VDC for their poverty elimination and
empowerment of the community and to access the participation of local
people on VDC council meeting. The research found out the allocation of
budget of local bodies to target groups for their empowerment. The main
findings of this research is local bodies has regularly invested and allocated
some budget to target groups but the participation of target communities
don't regularly increasing to some fiscal years and there is very
difficult to increase the utilize of the budget and participation of target
groups. The allocation of local bodies to target group is comparatively
not increasingly. This research has found out that the main priority to allocate
budget to target group is mandatory for VDCs and approval from local
people through VDC council meeting is obligatory for all VDCs
within second week of January.
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Budget allocation, Council meeting