Kathmandu, Aug. 27
Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat urged the Nepali
community in Vancouver, Canada, to use the skills, technology, experience and
capital learned abroad for the development of Nepal.
He has made such a request while discussing and interacting
with the Nepali community in Vancouver the other day, the Ministry of Finance
(MoF) informed in a statement on Sunday.
Minister Dr. Mahat said that an investment-friendly
environment is being created in Nepal and sectors such as energy, tourism,
information technology and agricultural enterprises are attractive for
investment.
Likewise, he urged the Nepali diaspora to help in solving
the shortage of expert manpower in Nepal. At the same time, he informed that
Nepali students who reach Canada for higher education go there without
sufficient information and face various problems.
Finance Minister Dr. Mahat is in Canada to participate in
the 7th World Conference of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). He
had reached there on August 20 and is scheduled to return home on Monday evening.
Earlier, on Friday, a plenary session of the 7th
World Conference of the GEF elected him vice-president of the world body.
Likewise, while addressing the assembly meeting of the World
Wildlife Fund, he said that Nepal has expanded the total land covered by
forests to 45 per cent, and has flowed clean oxygen for the entire human
community.
He also said that Nepal is making sincere efforts to protect
biological diversity, as well as protecting rare and endangered wild animals
and species.
Similarly, FM Dr. Mahat drew the attention of the world
delegation gathered in Vancouver to the fact that Nepal's temperature is
expected to increase by 0.5 to 2.0 degrees Celsius by 2030 and that more than
50 billion US dollars of investment is needed by 2050 to deal with its effects
and impacts.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 28 August 2023.
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