Finance Minister’s statement: “It is not an election matter to increase salary, provisions of Act been implemented”

KATHMANDU: MAY. 30 – Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has claimed that the current budget is in balance. He said this at a press conference held at the Ministry of Finance on Monday.

“We are trying to balance the current budget and it is comparatively more balanced than the previous budget. Even regionally, we are in balance. Some states have been increased and some have been reduced. This is a balance. ‘

He has even said that increasing the salaries of the employees is not an election issue. “Increasing the salaries of the employees is not an election issue,” he said. Training the youth is not an election issue. This is also a matter of necessity. Giving pensions to farmers is not an election issue either. ‘