The Ministry of Finance has allocated Rs 8.11 billion for the local level elections. 

Earlier, the Election Commission had demanded Rs 8.95 billion to hold the local level elections. But, the Ministry trimmed down the budget of some of the titles and decided to allocate Rs 8.11 billion for the civic polls. 

The Ministry has not allocated the budget for information technology, transportation of ballot paper and electronic voting machines.

The Election Commission had demanded Rs 10 million for the electronic voting machines. 

Though the experts had suggested the Election Commission to use electronic voting machines in the local level elections, the poll has given priority to the paper ballots. 

The government has announced to conduct local level elections on May 13 in one phase as per the recommendation of the Election Commission.