Kathmandu, Sept. 10
Nepal National Federation of
Entrepreneurs (NNFE) on Saturday demanded that the government start its
initiation to bring the Nepal-bound goods stuck across the Nepal-China border
in Rasuwagadhi and Tatopani.
Issuing a statement, it stated that
the government has largely remained indifferent towards the concerns of the
businessmen.
It objected that there is no
initiative on the part of the government to release goods worth billions of
rupees stuck at the Chinese border.
“It is worrisome that the government did
not show interest in solving the problems of entrepreneurs,” read the
statement.
Kumar Karki, the president of the NNFE,
said that goods being imported targeting the upcoming festival season are
likely to get damaged due to the border closure while agricultural goods have
already begun to rot. He expressed worries that the border shut down could
result in the shortage of clothes and other goods during Dashain, the greatest
festival in Nepal.
The federation has urged the
government to solve the problems being created at the border. Many
entrepreneurs are unable to even pay the bank's interest rates as their
business is affected due to the shortage of goods, it maintained.
"There is a situation where the
goods are stuck at the border, the bank is repeatedly asking to repay the loan
and threatening to auction and confiscate the property, which is causing mental
stress," read the statement.
Likewise, the NNFE requested the
Nepal Rastra Bank to control the bank's interest rate.
Tibet is under lockdown for a month
since August 10. And according to the traders’ rough estimate, the number of
trucks and containers stuck across the border has reached 450.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 11 September 2022.
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