Experience
The journey so far
Twenty-two years, one method.
Committee chair
Public Accounts Committee
Reading tender documents until your eyes ache. Recovered Rs 41 crore in irregular procurement in the first eighteen months.
Member of Parliament, Sundarpur–2
Federal Parliament of Nepal
Sponsored the Right to Local Information Bill. Voted against the party whip twice, both times on procurement transparency.
Provincial assembly member
Himganga Provincial Assembly
Carried the rural water and school-reconstruction programmes province-wide: 52 gravity-flow systems, 84 schools.
Ward chairperson
Sundarpur Municipality
Piped water to 1,400 households and cleared a nine-year backlog of local disputes. The office queue halved in eighteen months.
Ward member
Sundarpur Municipality, Ward 6
Put the line-item budget on the office wall in letters readable from the road. 340 complaints in year one, every one of them useful.
Volunteer coordinator
Ward 6 Water Users' Committee
Eleven months of a dry tap traced to one unsigned form in a district office. Water returned to 240 households in March 2010.
MA, Public Policy
Tribhuvan University — thesis on ward-level budget disclosure.
Student union secretary
Sundarpur Higher Secondary School
Organised the campaign that got a girls' toilet block built — the school had 380 girls and one working latrine.
BA, Sociology
Himganga Multiple Campus, Sundarpur.