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Corruption at High Level in Nepal
The state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of November 23, 2007, reported that Acting Chief Commissioner of Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lalit Bahadur Limbu on Thursday November 22 speaking at the Reporters' Club in Kathmandu said that there was no legal base for the CIAA to hold an investigation into a significant portion of irregularities. He said that the public sector comprises 70 per cent of the country's economy and the private 30 per cent. “Out of the 70 per cent public sector, it has jurisdiction to investigate only 40 per cent cases and there is no law at all on the private sector," Limbu said, “There is very high tendency of corruption and corrupt practices mainly due to the wide gap between the rich and the poor."
Another speaker at the Reporters' Club, NC leader Dr. Narayan Khadka said that the corruption increased because of the state of impunity, political interference and the transitional phase.
