Kathmandu, March 31 -- A team from the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration visited Uttargaya Rural Municipality and Gosainkunda Rural Municipality in Rasuwa district to monitor their performance in December last year.

The team, led by Under-secretary Mahendra Kumar Sapkota, found that the elected representatives of the municipalities had been taking fuel allowance without setting an amount limit.

"We could not tell whether they were receiving the fuel allowance as per the normal requirement. The two municipalities had been distributing fuel allowance to the staff without setting any standard," an official at the ministry told the Post.

While the employees of Uttargaya and Gosainkunda rural municipalities were enjoyin...