4.5 million jobs in five years

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Feb 15: Ujyalo Nepal Party (UNP) has made public the party's commitment paper in relation to the upcoming election to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5.

Stating that the UNP has been established for good governance, prosperity and social justice, the commitment paper lays out the party's development targets in five and ten year time frame in different sectors.

This commitment paper presents a clear roadmap for turning the economy to production and employment expansion while maintaining zero tolerance on corruption, read the UNP's election manifesto.

It has also proposed to cut number of HoR members to 201, provincial members to 330, federal ministries to 15 and the provincial ministries to 5/7. The UNP has also proposed for directly elected chief ministers in the provinces.

The party has laid special focus on east-west railways and Kerung to Kathmandu to Raxual railways while increasing electricity generation so as to export and earn foreign currencies.

One of the extraordinary target of the UNP is related to generating 4.5 million employment in a period of five years in hydro, agriculture, tourism, IT, industry, infrastructure, health and sports sectors.