The Himalayan Times 7 March 2014 Urgency of local polls It has been almost 12 years for the local level bodies being without the elected representatives due to gross negligence of the so called big parties who never got tired of talking about democracy and claiming themselves as its champions. Different mechanisms were tried to implement the development activities at the local level. They were not successful; instead most of the development funds were misappropriated. Representatives of the all party mechanism to implement the development activities were also involved in corruption. Recently, the CIAA announced that most of the local level development funds were misappropriated in the absence of elected local bodies. Assigning a VDC Secretary to look after the daily affairs of two to three VDC was one of the blunders made by the Ministry of Local Development (MoLD). Millions of development budget were haphazardly spent due to the absence of proper supervision and mon...
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