Hetauda, July 18: Preparations have neared the final for the ninth national general convention of Nepal Press Union (NPU) scheduled to take place in Hetauda, the capital of Bagmati Province, on coming July 22-23.
Prime Minister and Nepali Congress
President Sher Bahadur Deuba will be inaugurating the event to take place at
the Hetauda-based Royal Party Palace, according to the general convention's local
coordination committee joint-coordinator Girija Prasad Adhikari.
As he said, preparations for accommodations
for the participants and convention venue management works have been completed
while works to build a welcome gate, print invitation cards and banners have
been expedited.
Hotels at Hetauda, Makwanpurgadhi,
Amlekhgunj, and Sarah have been booked for visitors and a food stall is to be
managed near the event venue. As he said, around 1600 press union
representatives and guests are expected to join the event.
It is said the general convention
will elect new leadership for the Union, an organization of journalists of the democratic stream. Earlier, the Union had formed the local coordination
committee headed by its member and Bagmati Province coordinator Rammani
Dahal.
Rupesh Dulal has the role of a
coordinator for residential management, Sujan Bidari for food management, Posta
Raj Adhikari for secretariat management, and Keshab Samarpan for public
affairs.
A main organizing committee has
been formed under the coordination of Union central president Badri
Sigdel. (RSS)