Pokhara, Feb. 25 -- Machhapuchchhre Rural Municipality in Kaski allocated Rs300,000 through a consumers' committee to construct a foot trail from Kurli to Tilchi in the current fiscal year. The committee paid a total of Rs23,100 in revenue to the rural municipality. Shiva Bhandari, a local resident of Kalimati in ward 8 of the rural municipality, vented his ire on social media, stating that the local unit fails to collect millions from crusher plants, while ordinary people have to pay such a hefty amount for the development project worth just Rs300,000.

"Is the law only for orindary people? How long will the powerful get off scot-free while commoners comply with the legal provisions?" he wrote on social media. He expressed his dissatisfa...