Pokhara Metropolis’ policies and programmes focusing tourism, agriculture, service delivery

POKHARA: Pokhara Metropolitan City has unveiled its annual policies and programmes for the fiscal year 2023/24 with a target to make a prosperous tourist city. Releasing the annual policies and programmes, Mayor Dhanraj Acharya said that programmes had been advanced with the theme of 'Base of Prosperous Pokhara: Robust Economy and Infrastructure". Likewise, Mayor Acharya said that tourism, infrastructure development, human resource development, entrepreneurship and good governance will be kept as priority. The divisions, sections and ward offices of the city will be technology-friendly while the mediation services would be made effective. Mayor Acharya informed that one-door system will be ensured for accessible, prompt, transparent and citizen-friendly service delivery in the city. 'Hello Mayor Service' will be made further effective while the grievance handling mechanism ensured in each ward of the metropolis. The policies and programmes have taken zero tolerance against corruption. According to him, a dedicated fire brigade and ambulance service will be ensured to the areas across the Seti River; strategic plan of action will be gradually implemented as per the plan to make the city carbon neutral by 2100 BS. As announced by Mayor Acharya, a project will be launched for Clean Pokhara, Green Pokhara by planting 200,000 saplings within the fiscal year 2024/25. According to Mayor Acharya, efforts will be made to run the businesses in Lakeside area of Pokhara round-the-clock by formulating appropriate procedures to regulate the nightlife in the city. The policies and programmes states running a special programme for the conservation of lake areas, watersheds and marshlands in the city. Cooperatives will be promoted for their concentration on agriculture and production sector for the collection of agricultural produces, storage and expansion of market access and industry and employment generation campaign will be forwarded through commercial goods production from each cooperative organisation. By RSS READ ALSO:

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