The Nepali Judiciary - Supreme Court Of Nepal

Although, the strategic plan with justification had projected the budget required for the judiciary, it
has been the practice of the National Planning Commission and the government to prescribe the
ceiling of the budget and therefore, it has become a practice to project budget pursuant to the
prescribed ceiling and such a practice is continued till date. With such practice in place, it has
become difficult to achieve the targets projected and determined by the Plan. The budget
disbursed for the judiciary falls approximately within 0.60 to 0.70% of the total national budget.
During the period of implementation of the Plan, judiciary has received assistance in various
sectors from the donor community. United Nations Development Program, USAID, European
Union, DanidaHUGOU, Asian Development Bank, and World Bank are some of the organizations
that have been assisting the judiciary.
These organizations have been assisting the judiciary in the publication of law magazine,
strengthening of the courts, capacity enhancement of judicial manpower, development of pilot
courts, mediation program, legal reform, case management, judicial research, strengthening of
commercial courts and record management to name a few.
3.2.3.3 Physical Infrastructure and Management of other Facilities
Taking into consideration the weakness of the physical infrastructure of the courts, the Plan
envisages activities such as maintaining the status quo of the current infrastructures of the courts,
management of library facilities, repair and renovation of furniture and other goods, and repair and
renovation of vehicles. Details of the budget disbursed for this program is provided hereinbelow:
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Statement of Budget Disbursed for Infrastructure Development and Books for the
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S.N. Particulars 2061/062 2062/063 2063/064 2064/065 2065/066 Total
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2,900,000
Land purchase - - 20,000,000 -
transferred
from other
budget head
2 Furniture 5,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 43,000,000
3 Vehicles 50,000,000 50,000,000 60,000,000 60,000,000 60,000,000 262,200,000
4 Machinery equipments 20,000,000 20,000,000 20,000,000 12,500,000 12,500,000 75,000,000
5 Construction of Building 3,415,000 93,990,000 126,886,000 157,500,000 230,000,000 667,500,000
6 Public construction and
infrastructure repair &
maintenance
585,000 6,010,000 28,114,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 60,000,000
Capital improvement - - - 10,000,000 10,000,000 20,000,000
Capital Total 79,000,000 180,000,000 265,000,000 260,000,000 332,500,000 1,116,500,000
7 Purchase of
books(Current
expenditure from 4.03)
5,000,000 7,700,000 2,450,000 2,500,000 1,500,000 191,500,000
Total 840,000,000 187,700,000 267,450,000 262,500,000 334,000,000 1,135,650,000
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Source: Financial descriptions of the concerned year, Supreme Court
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