Wednesday, May 6, 2020

NC’s forms ‘economy-focused special committee’

The main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) today formed an ‘economy-focused special committee’ to study and analyse the impacts of Covid-19 in various sectors, and prescribe the government immediate, medium and long term solutions.
Issuing a press note today, NC informed that party president Sher Bahadur Deuba formed the committee under the coordination of the former finance minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat. The committee comprises former finance ministers and state ministers and vice chairs in the National Planning Commission (NPC), the press note reads, adding that the committee includes former finance ministers Mahesh Acharya, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Dr Narayan Khadka, Dr Minendra Rijal, Chinkaji Shrestha, Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Bharat Shah, and Uday Shumsher Rana. “Likewise, Dr Prithivi Raj Ligal, Dr Shankar Sharma, Dr Jagadish Chandra Pokhrel, Dr Govinda Pokhrel and Dr Swarnim Wagle are also in the special committee.”
“The party will set its immediate vision and position regarding relief packages, short-term vision on the priorities of the upcoming budget and long vision on national economy post-pandemic,” the press note reads.

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