FM Sharma urges industrialists to increase productions

Bharatpur, Aug. 26

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said that the production-friendly policy is the need of the moment and the budget has been introduced based on the same theme.

Speaking at the fifth district conference of the Nepal Industry and Trade Federation of Chitwan, an organisation of industrialists close to CPN (Maoist Centre) in Bharatpur, Chitwan, on Friday, he requested the industrialists of Chitwan to increase domestic production.

"The current budget is a kind of a production-friendly policy. The country cannot run on remittances, production should be increased by maximum utilisation of labour and resources. We have also presented the same topic in the budget," he said.

Finance Minister Sharma, admitted that he did not get a degree from a world-renowned university and that he was called a fighter, was true. "I did not get a degree from Harvard or Oxford University. In their language I am a fighter. However, I read life of the Dalits of the Terai region. I read what is the cause of poverty in the country. I studied the possibilities, and conducted discussions on it with many people. Now, I presented the current budget saying that production should be increased by maximum utilisation of available labour and resources," he said.

He said that the budget prioritised production and increasing domestic production is the need of the day. According to him, the local and federal governments will support in the technology needed to increase the production.

Minister Sharma said that all vegetables needed in Kathmandu can be supplied from Chitwan, a district of multifaceted importance and a leader in terms of production. He pledged government support for the same.

He informed that a preliminary survey for the tunnel that would facilitate travel from Kathmandu to Chitwan in 45 minutes has started. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 26 August 2022.