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We aspire to establish Nepal in our time: NRNA President

Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) President Kumar Panta stated they are committed to scaling up investment in Nepal and creating job opportunities thus supporting the federal government realise its vision of constructing a prosperous Nepal.

Throughout his talks with the National News Agency (RSS) on Tuesday, the NRNA President was of the view that the federal government need to use the broad network of the Association in its advancement endevours to make the country thriving.

"The NRNA is a big forum and is totally a social organisation. Nepal is expected to use this forum for its causes. We invest personal accounts for the causes of Nepal and Nepali. We are refraining from doing all these not just for name sake," he stated. He took time to share about the NRNA strategy of arranging the Second Knowledge, Skills and Technology Conference in the Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel in coming October. The occasion will be supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Planning Commission.

As he said, the NRNA has actually currently talked about with the Ministry and Commission on the problem of implementation of a White Paper released by the very first Conference held here last year. He went on to say the NRNA was concentrated on producing a favorable atmosphere for passing understanding, abilities, technology and capital achieves by the NRNS onto Nepal and increasing the investment here.

According to him, the Lamjung-based Dordikhola Hydropower Project initiated by a group of some one thousand NRNs is likely to be finished by the next 2 months. Another huge project on a joint venture of the government and NRNA is in the offing. The NRNA will not investment in any job separately, it will do a collaborating role to make the investment sure, developing a beneficial environment towards that end.

"The NRNs have produced tasks for numerous through the financial investments in various hospitals, banks, hotels and hydropower in Nepal." Preparations are on to develop a mutual fund of Rs 10 billion in partnership with the government which as he said would have its 5 percent stake.

As he stated Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli appeared positive towards that end. According to him, the Association has actually formed a separate Special Committee to support the Nepal Visit Nepal 2020 and a number of programs of international level which consist of marketing events, events, seminars and assemblies are on its routine schedule targeting the Year. He required time to make it clear that the current Visit Nepal Year advertising in Australia was a preplanned and it had a great assistance from the civic and government level there to make it successful.

It was organised in the middle of the huge bushfire there, it had not given that much of a negative message.

A separate department functions under the NRNA for the promotion of Nepali language, culture and art, according to him. Every NRNA chapters have prepared to have a different committee to transfer the knowledge about Nepal language, culture and art to the second generation.

There are schools which run the Nepali language classes where the density of Nepal is high. Food and street celebrations including Nepali art and culture are occurring in numerous nations to inform global neighborhoods that Nepal is highly abundant in art and culture.

Discussions on BIPPA Discussions with the Nepal federal government on the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) were underway and Nepal was positive about it, he said.

Mentioning that of 7 million Nepalis in foreign nations (other than neighbouring India), more than a half are toiling in Gulf nations, he said the NRNA has actually been assisting the Nepali migrant workers in foreign countries dealing with numerous problems. He demanded allowance of 2 poisa to be spent for the well-being of the migrant employees of 26 to 30 poisa in premium provided to Nepal's banks by the Nepal Rastra Bank to prevent Hundi.

On politics inside the NRNA, he said, "Nepalis in foreign nations have not undergone transformation. It is unfortunate to politicise the NRNA. When I was NRNA's General Secretary, I personally prompted leaders nepali unicode converter Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Jhala Nath Khanal and Sushil Koirala not to politicise the NRNA. They were active when NRNA's elections were around the corner.

Office bearers of the NRNA approached the leaders then and inquired to support election candidates close to them. Now NRNA's elections will not take place in a bid to stop such practices." The NRNA in coordination with Nepal's embassies in foreign countries and as informal agents of the Government of Nepal was at work to prompt foreign investment in Nepal and spread out the message of the Visit Nepal Year 2020, he stated.

On voting rights to NRNs Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision in favour of offering voting rights to the non-resident Nepalis as well, he stated they have actually been discussing with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Election Commission relating to the practicality of the voting. He stated there is the possibility of on-line voting or by keeping a voting cubicle at some http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=nepal location given that the ballot would not be possible in all places.

According to him, according to the present practice an individual must have lived in a foreign nation for 2 years to get the NRN status. This condition is not suitable to the Nepali trainees and employees of the embassy and diplomatic missions. The Association is demanding that Nepalis living in nations which think about the persons domiciled for six months as tax-payers likewise be recognized as NRNs.

He shared that NRNA is constructing four innovative toilets at main cross roadways of Kathmandu-- Kalanki, Chabahil, Maharajgunj and Koteshwor-- as the majority of the existing toilets in Kathmandu were found to be stinking and without water.

Mentioning that discussions have been held from time to time within NRNA regarding advertising the unique Nepali trade and companies run by the Nepalis in foreign land, experience sharing and connecting knowledge and capital, the NRNA president stated collection of information would be begun on the enterprises run by Nepalis in foreign countries and those operated by NRNAs in Nepal.

As he stated, there are over 100 thousand business run by Nepalis in foreign countries at present. These consist of hotels, dining establishments, IT firms as well as medical and engineering sector. These services are using hundreds of countless individuals. He has actually come Nepal in connection with holding conversations on the election procedure of the Association, its statute, allocation of duties and various committees.

The NRNA president also stated that a special convention would be organised for passing the organisational report and the statute. "One can like his/her motherland whichever nation one resides in or holds the passport of whichever country. We have been encouraging the Nepalis to live and invest in Nepal. It is our typical dream to make Nepal thriving.

There are couple of countries as lovely as Nepal with its mountains, hills and the Tarai plains. We are really eager to make Nepal flourishing and developed within our life time. We are motivated to make use of and turn over the capital, understanding, abilities and innovation for the economic success of Nepal alone," he asserted.