NGOs call for open budget process
A group of NGOs yesterday called for more detailed information on national budgets to be made public before their approval, maintaining that the public had a right to know about and comment on the expenditures that would ultimately affect their day-to-day lives.
Tek Vannara, director of the umbrella group NGO Forum, said that citizens were too often told by politicians that they prioritised fields like health care and agriculture, only to find after the budget’s passage that the lion’s share of funding had gone to security and national defence. …
Chhay Channyda
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