Garden Mart opens its outlet in Bhalubang

Kathmandu, May 28

Garden Mart has opened its 19^th branch in Bhalubang of Rapti Rural Municipality in Dang district to offer different shopping experience to consumers for various items including daily necessities under one roof.

On Saturday, Chairman of Rapti, Prakash Bista inaugurated the mart at a special programme, the company said in a statement on Saturday. He said that the mart would help in creating employment at the local level and marketing the local products.

According to branch chief Dan Bahadur Thapa, the mart, run by Shivshikhar Multipurpose Cooperative, has daily necessities, rice, sugar, pulses, clothes for all age groups and toys for children. In addition, cosmetics, refrigerators, washing machines, irons, geysers and other electrical appliances are available at the mart.

Along with the operation of Mart in Bhalubang, the cooperative has also opened its 28^th branch there. Consumers will also get a certain discount when purchasing these products on the occasion of the inauguration of the mart.

The cooperative has been operating marts in Suryabinayak of Bhaktapur, Thaiba of Lalitpur, Kirtipur of Kathmandu, Lahan of Udayapur, Narayanghat of Chitwan, Hetauda of Makwanpur, Yogikuti of Butwal, New Road of Nepalgunj, Birendranagar, and Mehalkuna of Surkhet, Dhangadhi of Kailali, Dadeldhura, Ghorahi of Dang and Chandni Chowk of Banke.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 29 May 2022.  

Aryal asks cooperatives to invest in productive sectors

Kathmandu, Dec. 18

Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal has urged the cooperatives to invest in the productive sectors in an integrated way.


"Cooperatives have reached across the country so they can help the country usher in the socialism with integrated investment in productive sectors," she said while speaking at the Cooperative Leaders National Forum 2019 organised by National Cooperative Bank.


She said that socialism would be impossible without capital formation, therefore, cooperatives must be focused on using the capital in a productive way. "You have an opportunity to be an engineer of socialism," she said.


According to Minister Aryal, cooperatives should create their programmes with high priority to economic prosperity. She also said that the government was formulating a new law to guide the cooperatives investment to the productive sectors so that it could support in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.


"The future direction for cooperatives is prosperity and development. Your support can be instrumental in taking the national aspiration 'Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali' to people's level," she said, "So, you have to be conscious enough to maintain good governance in the organisation and make it strong."


Minister Aryal also said that the number of cooperatives would be brought down and environment would be created to operate large-scale agriculture farm and enterprises through cooperatives.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 19 December 2019.