Nepal, Sept. 20 -- Nepal's federal constitution was promulgated in 2015, but its formal implementation started only in 2017. The greatest achievement of this constitution is to ensure a federal democratic republic with a multiparty competitive system of governance, periodic elections, an independent judiciary, human rights, fundamental rights and complete freedom of the press as constitutional rights. After the promulgation of the constitution, the state structure of the country has undergone great changes. State power in the former unitary system has been divided into three levels of government; accordingly, the provincial and local governments have been functioning in a new federal set-up.

The organisational structure of the three tier...