Nepal

With an aim of maintaining good governance, the Shuklagandaki Municipality in Tanahu district has installed what it called a 'transparent wall'. 

The transparent wall was put up on Sunday on the occasion of the 100 days of the new municipal executive taking up office after the local election. 

Mayor Krishna Raj Pandit said that the objective of installing the transparent wall, a notice board, was to inform the public about all the activities of the municipality. The wall is built to provide good governance and transparency. 

"The town people should know about each and every activity of the municipality. The transparent wall has been put up for providing this information to the people. We are the servants of the people and they should get information on every activity done by their elected representatives," Mayor Pandit said, adding that every activity of the local government, including its policies and plans, should be transparent.

Deputy Mayor Khum Bahadur BK said the 'transparent wall' initiative had been launched to put to an end the tradition of giving out information only in response to an application for the same. 

The Municipality’s Chief Administrative Officer Lila Ballabh Neupane believed that the 'transparent wall' would be important means of providing information to the citizens.

Daily notices, programmes, details of monthly income and expenditure, decisions of meetings, audit report, the decisions of the Municipal Assembly and Executive, and miscellaneous notices and messages would be put up on the 'transparent wall'.

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