May 25: Leaders of various political parties have given mixed reaction to the policies and programmes for the fiscal year 2022/23 presented in parliament by the government on Tuesday.    
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki described the policies and programs as a blueprint to make Nepal prosperous.

"The policies and programmes reflect our dream of bringing prosperity to the country. It is not just an assurance, it will be implemented," the state-owned national news agency RSS quoted the minister as saying.    
Likewise, Chairperson of Janata Samajwadi Party of Nepal and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai said that the policies and programmes were positive as a whole but were insufficient for the overall economic development of the country.    
Chairperson of CPN (Unified Socialist) and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also remarked that the policies and programmes were positive as the country's agriculture, energy development, tourism promotion and other sectors were given high priority.    
CPN (UML) Vice Chairman and former Finance Minister Surendra Pandey said that many issues included in the policies and programmes have been repeated since a long time. He also said that it would be difficult to implement everything mentioned in the policies and programmes due to limited size of our budget.    
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Rajendra Lingden remarked that there would be problems in implementation as in the past due to the traditional nature of budget. -- RSS