Minister Badu asks to run ‘sick industries’ preparing operational modality

KATHMANDU: Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Dilendra Prasad Badu has instructed the chiefs of the line agencies to run the sick industries immediately by bringing their operational modality. In a meeting with the ministry’s secretary and other high-ranking officials on Thursday, Minister Badu made such instruction as per the provision mentioned in the budget of the current fiscal year 2021/22. The budget of the current fiscal year has allowed to run the sick industries closed for years by preparing their operational modality. On the occasion, Minister Badu underscored the need for creating sufficient employment and increasing national production by immediately resuming those sick industries’ operation. Minister Badu further asked the officials to make arrangements for seeking recommendations and holding discussions with all stakeholders to ensure visible output adding that the discussions and studies conducted so far at different levels did not offer output. Likewise, Minister Badu asked the officials to remain vigilant towards unusual price hikes, black marketing and artificial shortage of goods and foodstuffs at a time when the state mechanism’s attention has solely focused on elections. Badu directed the officials to establish coordination among the federal, provincial and local level government to carry out market monitoring in an effective manner. By RSS READ ALSO:

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