Author: Himalaya Post

The Central Zoo is going digital relieving visitors from standing in a long queue for hours to book tickets. Following this, zoo-goers can book tickets online from anywhere. The zoo will go digital within the current fiscal year, 2076/77 as the administration is at work in this regard, said Dr. Chiranjibi Prasad Pokharel, chief of the zoo administration. Visitors can save their time and fewer workforce are required after the zoo going online, he said. At present, the zoo has five employees booking tickets. The number of people visiting zoo has increased as people are interested in watching different types of animals and birds as well as spending time in open space as there is lack of enough open space in the Kathmandu Valley. The entrance fee has been determined Rs 750 for foreigners, Rs 500 for guests of SAARC countries, Rs 150 for Nepali citizen and Rs 90 for students and senior citizens. Some 1.1 million people visit the zoo every year and the annual transaction is worth Rs 150 million. The Zoo management has set up an information centre with an electronic notice board at the entry gate itself for the convenience of the visitors. The visitors can know about the animals in the zoo by reading electronic boards. There are 1,098 animals of 119 species at the Central Zoo. Tiger, bear, leopard and red panda, among...

The implementation of the budget appropriated for the development of Nuwakot district in the current fiscal 2019/20 is found disappointing. With the completion of six months of the fiscal year, the offices under the federal government have spent 27.5 percent and state government offices five percent. According to the Treasury Control Office Nuwakot, the public spending of federal government has been accounted for 27.5 percent in Nuwakot in the current fiscal year. Federal government’s 46 offices in Nuwakot made public spending amounting to Rs 880.7 million out of Rs 3.31 billion budget appropriated in the fiscal. Office Chief Diwakaran Ghimire said 20 government offices under the state governments and the local governments receiving grant from state government have spent Rs 103.9 million out of the earmarked budget of Rs 1.99 billion. This indicates disappointing situation of public spending in Nuwakot. The volume of spending of federal government had increased with the distribution of compensation to the people affected from Galchhi-Trishuli-Mailung-Syafrebesi-Rasuwagadhi road. He further noted, “Though the budget was made available on time to enable its execution, the dismal public spending has raised question of good governance and integrity”. Though the recurrent expenses of federal government offices seem satisfactory the performance of state government offices in this front is dismal. The Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme with a budget of Rs 240 million, which is to be executed under the direct...