Kathmandu. Education Secretary Chudmani Poudel has stated that the budget for the upcoming fiscal year is being prepared by giving high priority to the provinces and especially to the local levels. Speaking at a meeting of the Development, Economic Affairs and Good Governance Committee, he informed that the budget is being prepared with national plans and policies as the main basis, and that approximately 70 percent of the total budget for the education sector will be directly transferred to the local levels through financial transfer. According to Secretary Poudel, the School Sector Reform Program is being given special priority in...