The Kathmandu Metropolitan City and local bodies is caught up in a quagmire when it comes to addressing disputes between landlord and tenant.

-Bidhya Rai : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

The Dhobikhola Corridor in Kathmandu is ‘being constructed’ for the last 16 years. The construction of the Chabahil-Jorpati-Sankhu road is ‘under construction’ for the last 30 years. Works move at a snail’s pace, yet the concerned authorities seem to be least bothered. Contracts are made haphazardly.

Himal Lamsal/Khilak Budhathoki : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Most community schools in the Terai do not conduct exams, answer papers are not marked if tests are held, and students are not given mark sheets even if answers are marked.

Shrawan Kumar Dev and Surendra Kamati : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Among the 753 local federal units of the country, nearly 300 still have no banks. People’s representatives and civil servants making district headquarters or urban areas their stations citing the absence of banks has made it difficult for people spread over more than a third of the country’s geography to access the services of local governments.

-Krishna Adhikari (Nepalgunj) /Laxmi Gautam (Panchthar)/ Basant Pratap Singh (Bajhang)/ Ananda Gautam (Taplegjung) : Centre for Investigative Journalism

Local governments in Kailali and Khanchanpur spend Rs 20 million in total annually on stray cattle management as people abandon their old cows that don’t give milk and old oxen that can’t till land on the streets.

-Avinash Chaudhary : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Most local governments pour their funds on road, depriving education, health and other social development of precious resources.

Rudra Pangeni : Center for Investigative Journalism- Nepal

Police send victims to the local level and local councils back to the police. This lack of responsibility makes it increasingly difficult for women to get justice from the local councils of Province 5

-Amrita Anmol : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

As long as people’s representatives open road tracks around Phewa Lake and sediments to the south of Phewa Lake by clearing the Raniban forest, no order of the Supreme Court can save the lake. The track has been cut to build a motor road to Anadu village on the Phewa shore. Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolitan City Ward 22 Chairman Mitralal Baral openly says that there was no Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) before the opening of track.

Yuvaraj Shrestha:  Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

The elected local officials who had allocated budget in their party’s stronghold have halted projects in areas dominated by opposition. Such cases in Tulsipur and Ghorahi–two Sub Metropolitan Cities of Dang—have generated controversy.

Devendra Basnet : Center for Investigative Journalism- Nepal

Among the seven rural municipalities in Humla, five have Subba and Kharidar as their executive chief  

Nawaraj Mahatara : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

The comfortable majority given by people to a party for developing the village and serving the local residents is found to have been utterly misused. The Tilathi-Koiladi and Belhi-Chapena rural municipalities are the examples.

-Jitendra Kumar Jha: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

What if a Mayor possessing a majority, misuses his power by wronging his adversaries at a time when people and parties concerned have control over their own affairs? Lahan Municipality is one such example of misuse of power. UML-Maoist alliance has discriminated in allocating budget to the wards where they have lost the elections. Surendra […]

Middlemen have laid siege to the government property situated at the main chowks of the tourist city of Pokhara. The powerful local government has been unable to preserve the national property.

-Yuvaraj Shrestha: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Katahari Rural Municipality in Morang has fixed salary for people’s representatives and staffers and purchased vehicles. The law bars the local federal unit from doing so

-Kamal Rimal, Biratnagar: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Contractors elected mayors and rural municipality chiefs in Province 7 have drawn flak for not completing projects on time

-Nimendra Shahi, Bajura: Centre for Investigative Journalism 

A building spree continues in the public open spaces of Kathmandu. Elected local representatives have not woken up to the continued encroachment of spaces that are essential refuge for the general public in times of disaster such as earthquake.

Makar Shrestha: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Even as the government brought the concept of forming judicial committee, it has failed to deliver necessary legal orientation or consultation to these committees.

-Devendra Basnet, Dang : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Not even half of the ward offices of country’s metropolitan cities, sub-metropolitan cities, municipalities and rural municipalities have their chiefs. The conditions of ward offices are even worse. Among the 6,743 ward offices across the country, around 5,000 do not have their secretaries.

– Pramod Acharya: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Lack of coordination with other agencies hampers services to be delivered by constitutionally empowered local federal units. Medicine shortage faced by state-run health facilities in Kalikot, Bajura and Baitadi districts speaks volumes.

-Prakash Singh, Bajura/Baitadi, Tularam Pandey, Kalikot: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal