{"id":23626,"date":"2025-05-29T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=23626"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:49:45","slug":"new-budget-is-continuity-of-the-past-main-opposition-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/new-budget-is-continuity-of-the-past-main-opposition-party\/","title":{"rendered":"New budget is continuity of the past: Main opposition party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 29: The main opposition party CPN (Maoist Centre) leader, Janardan Sharma, has criticized the new budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2082\/83 BS terming it just a continuation of the past ones.<\/p>\n<p>There is no fundamental change except the continuation of the process, Maoist Centre&#8217;s Sharma added.<\/p>\n<p>Some concerns of the private sector have been addressed as reported, which is positive, the former finance minister added.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of resources, the situation of revenue collection and expenses is pathetic, Sharma viewed.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that mere continuation of the budget was not sufficient to ensure a shift in the country&#8217;s economy, Sharma stated that the modality of the economic development should be changed to make it production-oriented. &#8220;Now, this is not focused. Country&#8217;s development cannot make a jump until we created a situation to run the country with own production, not in revenue collection and remittances inflow,&#8221; according to Maoist Centre&#8217;s leader Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the budget has not well incorporated the issues of people&#8217;s livelihood and has not offered any concrete agendas of health care, education and employment generation.<\/p>\n<p>However, chair of Finance Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) Santosh Chalise termed the upcoming fiscal year&#8217;s budget as outstanding adding that it has prioritized agriculture, eco-tourism, energy and youths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 29: The main opposition party CPN (Maoist Centre) leader, Janardan Sharma, has criticized the new budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2082\/83 BS terming it just a continuation of the past ones. There is no fundamental change except the continuation of the process, Maoist Centre&#8217;s Sharma added. Some concerns of the private sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-economy","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23628,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions\/23628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}