Good Governance Status of Sankharapur Municipality
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Good Governance Status of Sankharapur Municipality A Thesis Submitted to The Central Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University, In Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of the Masters of Arts (M.A) In Rural Development Submitted By SAKAR LOHANI Central Department of Rural Development Tribhuvan University TU Regd. No.: 6-2-711-04-2012 Exam Roll No: 2019, March DECLARATION I hereby declare that the thesis entitled Good Governance status of Sankharapur Municipality submitted to the Central Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University, is entirely my original work prepared under the guidance and supervision of my supervisor. I have made due acknowledgements to all ideas and information borrowed from different sources in the course of preparing this thesis. The results of this thesis have not been presented or submitted anywhere else for the award of any degree or for any other purposes. I assure that no part of the content of this thesis has been published in any from before. ………………………………….. Sakar Lohani Tribhuvan University TU Regd.: 6-2-711-04-2012 Roll No. 22 Date: 2075/11/26 (2019-03-10) II RECOMMENDATION LETTER The thesis entitled Good Governance status of Sankharapur Municipality has been prepared by Mr. Sakar Lohani under my guidance and supervision. I hereby forward this thesis to the evaluation committee for final approval and acceptance. …………………….. Suman Kharel Thesis Supervisor Date: 2075-11-26 (2019-03-10) III APPROVAL LETTER This thesis entitled Good Governance status of Sankharapur Municipality submitted by Mr. Sakar Lohani in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Arts (M.A) in Rural Development has been approved by the evaluation committee. Evaluation Committee: ……………………… Prof. Dr. Pushpa Kamal Subedi Head of the Department ………………………. Prajwal Man Pradhan External Examiner ………………………….. Suman Kharel Supervisor IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study entitled GOOD GOVERNANCE STATUS OF SANKHARAPUR MUNICIPALITY has been prepared for partial fulfillment of master’s degree in rural development. First of all, I feel privileged to have Mr. Suman Kharel, Lecturer, Central Department of Rural Development as my thesis guide. Without his cordial help, guidance, valuable suggestions and continued inspiration and feedback, this thesis would never have taken this shape. It is now time to express heartful gratitude to him. The cooperation received from Dr. Pushpa Kamal Subedi, Head of the Department and respected teachers and staffs of the Central Department of Rural Development can never be forgotten. Thus, I would like to express my sincere gratefulness to all of them. I am extremely thankful to Dr. Prem Sharma for his valuable time & cordial support. I would also like to thank ERMC Pvt. Ltd., family specially Mr. Nimesh bakkunche for his help in data collection. I would also like to take a moment to remember my friends Mr. Pukar Karki, Mr. Jivan Thapa, Mrs. Shweta Bhandari. Also, my sincere gratitude also goes to Mayor, CAO, Ward chairman and local people of the study area who guided me through the data collection and my research. I am deeply obliged to my parents for their love and encouragement in completing this thesis. My father Dilip Lohani & mother Usha Lohani constantly helped and supported me; without their inspiration, I certainly would not have been able to finish my research work. I would like to thank my friend Mr. Bibek Raj Pudel & Mr. Kashyap Marrattha for their suggestions, help and inspiration. I would like to express many thanks to all of my colleagues for their help, inspiration and co-operation in preparing this thesis. Sakar Lohani Kathmandu, Nepal March, 2019 V ABSTRACT The title “Good governance status of Sankharapur Municipality” has been entitled to access the good governance status such as participation of stake holders, accountability & transparency of the representatives & public institutions & ultimately to assess the challenges of the local government & public institutions in Sankharapur municipality. The title also put light on the public institution jurisdiction & manner of service delivery to the sewagrahi. The change in political structure brought the dynamic change in the understanding of the new style of governing pattern; in fact development can only flourished by the effectiveness & efficiency of such public institution, after long run of people struggles ‘Singhadurbar to village’ is possible. Now, Local institution autonomously carries the functioning of the problems & can come in mainstream to advocate for the needs of their citizen in national policy making platform. As for the completion of the research Sankharapur municipality was selected as the main universe of the study, various ward of Sankharapur municipality’s ward number 2, 4 & 8 were taken according to the cluster sampling into Rural & urbanizing part of the municipality. Both qualitative as well as quantitative data were collected with the help of both Primary & secondary sources of data. The tools used for data collection were questionnaires, checklist and guidelines as well as secondary data and research paper analysis. The 20 % land is only covered by the households while 80 % lands were still untouched there which carries the immense potentialities of development of Sankharapur VI municipality in a new model like sample town, agriculture as a back bone, cultural heritage sites & traditional values, norms & archeological gifts from forefathers added the value to further self-evolving prosperity of this place, unexplored natural resources, ore of baluwa needs proper allocation & wise and optimum utilization of those resources can have no doubt for the development of this area which is reliant on the participation of the local people, effective & efficient public institution. After, change in local institution structure people experience the positive changes but still there remains a lot of problem & challenges which is needed to be address. Lastly, the prioritization of problems should be done and potentialities should be explored, policy & strategy should be made by consensus of citizen in each status & level. Lack of coordination between central & local government seems as the severe mistake which should be rectify as soon as possible, lack of nijamati officer basically in rural areas is coming as the main challenge, so it should be managed by the policy level as soon as possible, proper allocation of budget is most & local people should contribute their physical effort (Shram dan) & in case of revenue & tax only 3 % of total municipality budget is from the internal source. It has been very essential now for analyzing the manner of the service provider & understanding level of the service recipient, Good governance is not only obtained by analyzing the manner of the public service provider rather consciousness & seeking of answerability, transparency by public themselves helps to flourish good governance in such institutions. VII Contents DECLARATION .............................................................................................................................II RECOMMENDATION LETTER ..................................................................................................III APPROVAL LETTER....................................................................................................................IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.............................................................................................................V ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................VI Acronym/ Abbreviation ...................................................................................................................X CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................1 1.1 Background of the Study .......................................................................................................1 1.2 Statement of the problem .......................................................................................................3 1.3 Objectives ..............................................................................................................................4 1.5 Assumptions...........................................................................................................................4 1.6 Importance .............................................................................................................................4 1.7 Limitations.............................................................................................................................5 1.8 Organization of the study.......................................................................................................5 1.9 Operational Terminologies ....................................................................................................6 1.10 Justification..........................................................................................................................6 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW.............................................................................7 2.1 Background............................................................................................................................7 2.2 Historical Review...................................................................................................................8 2.3 Theoretical Review ................................................................................................................9