Karnali Province Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning Tekraj Pachhai has declared assets worth crores in a public property disclosure covering holdings across the province and beyond. The disclosure lists land in 31 places, from Jumla to Bardiya, 70 tola of gold and silver, and 43,542 shares in microfinance institutions and companies valued at more than Rs 30 million. The declaration has drawn attention because Karnali is often described as a poor province.
Land and valuables listed in the disclosure
The property statement identifies land in 31 different places, with the reported locations stretching from Jumla to Bardiya. The number and geographic spread are among the most prominent details in the disclosure. The available information does not give the area, location-by-location breakdown or separate valuation of the land, so the reported holdings cannot be used to calculate the value of the property as a whole.
Pachhai has also declared 70 tola of gold and silver combined. The disclosure breaks this down into 20 tola of gold and 50 tola of silver. These figures describe the quantities reported, but the available details do not specify a monetary value for either category. As a result, the reported quantity of precious metals should not be confused with a total valuation of his assets.
Shareholdings worth more than Rs 30 million
The disclosure lists 43,542 shares in various microfinance institutions and companies, with their value reported at more than Rs 30 million. That is more than Rs 3 crore in shareholdings alone. The reported total covers shares across multiple institutions and companies; the available information does not provide a company-by-company list, the number of shares held in each one or a breakdown of their individual values.
The share figure is a distinct part of the declaration alongside the land and precious metals. It indicates the reported value of the listed shareholdings, but it does not by itself establish the total value of Pachhai’s assets. No combined valuation for all the categories is provided in the information available here. The disclosure therefore presents several substantial asset categories without a single overall figure that would add them together.
Disclosure draws attention in a poorer province
The report has attracted notice in the context of Karnali, a province often described as poor. That context makes the scale and range of the declared holdings a point of public interest, particularly because the declaration includes assets in numerous locations as well as investments in financial institutions and companies. The description of Karnali as poor is regional context, however, and does not in itself establish anything about how Pachhai acquired or owns the listed assets.
Reports by Ratopati and Artha Sarokar report the land, precious-metal and share figures included in the public disclosure. Together, the details outline the declared asset categories and their reported scale, while leaving the value of the land and the overall combined worth unspecified in the information provided.
