Nepal, May 7 -- The government is set to allocate Rs 210 million to each lawmaker under what it calls 'Balanced Infrastructure Development Program.' This scheme will add a whopping Rs 34 billion to an already strained national budget, even as revenue collection continues to fall behind the target. The new move by the government has contradicted an earlier verdict from the Supreme Court that had suspended such distribution of public funds to lawmakers in the name of carrying out development projects in their respective constituencies. By showing its intent to provide a whopping sum to each of 165 lawmakers elected through the first-past-the-post method, the government has indeed undermined constitutional principles and fiscal discipline. D...