NRN pledges to attract Rs. 10 b investment

Kathmandu, Oct. 20

The Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has announced that it will launch a campaign to attract Rs. 10 billion investment in infrastructure development sector in the country.

The first meeting of the newly elected NRNA's International Coordination Council on Sunday formed a committee led by its President Kumar Pant to work on the idea. The committee has a mandate to submit the action plan for the same within a month.

The meeting has also formed another committee led by its immediate past President Bhaban Bhatta to cooperate with the government in the Visit Nepal Year 2020 campaign.

Likewise, the members of the NRNA working committee have expressed their commitment to providing Rs. 10.6 million to the Labour Welfare Fund established to support the Nepali migrant workers and their families in hard times. They have accepted the proposal of President Pant to offer support to the fund. The NRNA has been mobilising support to the victims of foreign employment through this fund.

The first meeting of the new working committee has moved ahead with the idea of allowing every member of the association to vote directly through the electronic means. Vice-President Man KC is leading a team to study on the matter, and on providing the membership of the NRNA without any fee. Other members of the team are General Secretary Dr. Hemraj Sharma, Secretary Gauri Raj Joshi and Treasurer Mahesh Shrestha.

A Special Assembly of the organisation will be called soon to take a decision about changing the NRNA's organisational structure and election system.

Meanwhile, the Secretariat of the association in Kathmandu will be strengthened.

The meeting has decided to form five departments – foreign employment, humanitarian, trade and investment, skill, knowledge and innovation, and Nepal promotion - in the organisation led by its five vice-presidents. The departments will have members of the ICC and experts of the respective sectors. All the humanitarian works would be implemented through the NRNA Foundation which is in the process, and all the works would be conducted through the single door.

Similarly, Dr. Shesh Ghale, past-president, has been appointed as the Chief Patron of the organisation. Two former presidents Dev Man Hirachan and Jiba Lamichhane, IPP Bhatta and former Patron Ram Pratap Thapa are patrons.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 21 October 2019.