Economic Affairs minister of the Gandaki Province, Dr. Takraj Gurung presented the budget at the provincial assembly on Sunday, which is less by a billion rupees compared to the budget size last year.
Provincial governments in Nepal are set to announce their budgets for the upcoming Fiscal Year 2025/25 on Sunday focusing on infrastructure, agriculture, employment and production development.
Seven health facilities from various districts in Gandaki Province have been provided ambulance. The Indian Embassy in Nepal provided the ambulances under the Nepal-India development programme. Chief of Indian Pension Camp, Prashant Singh Bagel, handed over the essential vehicles.
The accident involving avehicle (Lu. Pra. 01001 Cha. 1775) took place on Friday evening as it was carrying 16 passengers from Burtibang Bazaar to Dhorpatan Municipality-5 and fell about 60 meters from the road.
The coffee seedlings as per the farmers' demand have not been met due to low production, shared Jeevan Acharya, the head of the Center. A demand has been received for 200,000 coffee seedlings from the nursery but only 70,000 seedlings have been produced.
Identities of all those killed and wounded in a jeep accident that occurred in Dhorpatan municipality-5 of Baglung have been ascertained.
The farmers in the district have been distributed agricultural tools under the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.
Inaugurating the second International Mother Language Conference organized by National Forum of Newar Journalists in Lalitpur today, Speaker Ghimire expressed the view that challenges have been seen in the context of mother language journalism and attention should be paid to preserve it.
Vehicular movement that has been disrupted along the Narayangadh–Butwal section of the East-West Highway after a flood triggered by heavy rainfall of Wednesday night submerged a temporary diversion built in the Binayi River on Thursday morning resumed after seven hours. The highway blocked at 8:45 in the morning came into operation at 3:40 in the afternoon, said Distrcit Police Office Nawalpur.
"We have visited Mustang village by village on foot and held interactions with the people to take an objective stock of the situation. We have understood people's problems and now we will honestly work to solve them as we have a plan to develop it as a model district," said Chairman Prachanda addressing a programme organized by Maoist Mustang district committee.
Engineer Nabin Gautam from the Road Department, Pokhara Metropolitan City said that a project agreement was signed between the Pokhara Metropolitan City and the Urban Development and Building Construction Department in March 2021, and road construction has progressed.
All the schools in Palungtar municipality of Gorkha district have been closed from today due to extreme heat.