Agrawal elected president of CNI

Kathmandu, June 24

Rajesh Kumar Agrawal has been elected as the President of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).

At the 20^th Annual General Meeting of the organisation held in the Capital on Saturday, incumbent Senior Vice-President Agrawal is automatically elected as the president of the business body as per its statute.

He has served as a member of the National Council of the Confederation, Chairman of the Industry Committee, Chairman of the Revenue Committee, and Coordinator of the Employers' Council.

Born in Kathmandu, Agrawal has been in the industry since 1992, and is the executive director of RMC Group which is involved in cement, steel, food and other industrial sectors. The outgoing president of the federation, Vishnu Kumar Agrawal handed over the office to the newly elected president.

The AGM elected Sanjay Golchha, Raj Bahadur Shah, Bidushi Rana, Ajit Vikram Shah, Hemraj Dhakal, Ashish Agrawal Jajodia, Manish Khemka, Dwiraj Sharma (Shiwakoti), Dhruba Prasad Rijal, Barsha Shrestha, Hitesh Golchha, Ashish Garg, Sapana Sapkota and Birendra Raj Pandey as the members of the National Council of CNI.

Likewise, Laxmi Prasad Subedi, Gokul Bhandari, Sandeep Sharda, Mohit Kedia, Amit More, Amit Kumar Begani, Chandra Tandon, Rohit Gupta, Nirvana Chaudhary, Varun Kumar Todi, Rahul Kumar Agrawal, Sharad Kumar Tibarewala, Vikram Singhania, Milan Babu Malla, Deepak Agrawal, Vishal Agrawal, Saurabh Dugar, Vikas Dugar, Dileep Agrawal, Gopal Kumar Agrawal and Aditya Sanghai were also elected as the National Council members.

Nirvana Chaudhary, Birendra Raj Pandey, Raj Bahadur Shah, Hemraj Dhakal, Rohit Gupta, Amit More and Bhim Ghimire have been elected as vice-presidents of the federation.

Similarly, Sandeep Sharda, Gokul Bhandari and Chhayan Sharma have been nominated as permanent invited members of CNI.

Rajesh said that he would put his efforts to find solutions to the government's rapidly changing policy rules, high-interest rates, decrease in overall demand, decrease in production, diminishing morale of entrepreneurs and postponement of new investment plans. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 25 June 2023.