Kathmandu, April 15 -- Lawmakers have agreed to contribute the billions of rupees under the Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme, to be spent on the recommendation of directly elected parliamentarians, to combat Covid-19.

A meeting of the Business Advisory Committee represented by the chief whips and whips of different parties agreed to transfer the budget to the government's Coronavirus Management and Control Fund.

The budget, under a partnership programme, is spent in local federal units on the recommendation of the respective lawmaker elected under the first-past-the-post category. Starting this fiscal year, the government has increased the budget to Rs 60 million, which each directly elected lawmaker can suggest ho...