Kathmandu, Oct. 21 -- The government has made the lawmakers-led Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme more distributive, opening the door for implementation of the programme only through consumer committees.

The programme has long been facing criticism of being distributive and for misuse of the funds while implementing the projects through consumer committee usually led by the cadres of political parties.

By amending the working procedure on implementation of the Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme, the government has reversed the past efforts to make it more result oriented by removing the provision from the working procedure that states that half of the budget under the programme should be spent fo...