Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme News Today

Interim order questions if lawmakers doing the work of the executive would undermine separation of powers principle.

In the past, local units implemented projects funded under the so-called constituency development fund.

RSP lawmakers have a chance to set a sterling precedent by rejecting CDF funds for its lawmakers.

It has brought a motion against the fund, but has yet to decide whether it will accept the fund if efforts fail.

The government, through the annual budget, revived the controversial programme which was shelved for two years.

Former member of planning body terms the budget anti-federalist.

The budget size for the next fiscal year 2023-24, beginning mid-July, is 2.3 percent less than the unrevised budget of the current fiscal year.

There are allegations of misuse of the money provided under the controversial fund known Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme.

The government on Saturday unveiled a budget of Rs 1,647.57 billion for fiscal year 2021-22, with priority accorded to battling and softening the blow of the coronavirus pandemic.