'PM's India visit to feature discussions to resolve trade-related issues'

Kathmandu, July 29: Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Damodar Bhandari, has shared that preparations were underway for holding a high-level discussion to resolve existing problems in trade in the course of the upcoming India visit of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.     

At a programme organised by Nepal Freight Forwarders Association to mark the 31st Cargo Day here today, he shared that various issues, including trade promotion, would be discussed during PM Oli's India visit.     

Minister Bhandari expressed commitment that the government will work to resolve the trade problems with the two neighbouring countries—India and China, as they are the first market of Nepal. The Ministry has been taking initiatives to upgrade trade and business between the two countries.     

Similarly, Financial Comptroller General Shova Kant Poudel, President of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Chandra Prasad Dhakal, President of Nepal Chamber of Commerce, Kamalesh Kumar Agrawal, President of Confederation of Nepalese Industry, Birendra Raj Pandey, and President of Nepal Freight Forwarders Association, Rajendra Sangraula, stressed on Nepal's trade promotion with other countries. (RSS)