Investment of Karnali province government in children’s sector negligible

8 Aug, Surkhet : Investment of Karnali provincial government in the child welfare sector is insignificant.

A study carried out by the Common Campaign for Child Rights (CCCR), an organization working for the child rights protection, shows that the province government has allocated only two percent of the total budget of the province in the children’s sector.

The study is based on a comparative study of the budget of the provincial government for three fiscal years.

CCCP had analyzed the budget allocation of the province government for the fiscal year 2021/22 to fiscal year 2023/24. The province government had allotted Rs 700 million 609 thousand and 13 or 1.84 percent of the total budget of Rs 38 billion 474 million and 279 thousand to the children’s sector in fiscal year 2021/22.

The budget appropriation to the children’s sector is found decreased in fiscal year 2022/23. In this fiscal year, the province government allotted only Rs 556 million 534 thousand and 628 or 1.89 percent of the province’s total budget of Rs 32 billion 616 million and 3000, in the children’s sector.

CCCR Programme Coordinator Tek Raj Acharya said that in the last fiscal year, the provincial government allocated only 1.89 percent of the total budget, for the children’s sector. The total budget of the province in fiscal year 2023/24 was Rs 33 billion 379 million and 700 thousand.

He said four sectors of child rights have been incorporated in the budget and the province government has carried out 1,655 activities in the last three fiscal years from the budget allotted to the children’s sector.

The provincial government conducted 508 activities in the children’s sector in fiscal year 2021/22, five hundred and seventy-four activities in the fiscal year 2022/23 and 573 activities in fiscal year 2023/24.