– Bhishma Raj Ojha
Kathmandu, April 26: Nepali Congress (NC) has unveiled its manifesto crafting a vision towards making Nepal a dynamic country with middle income status within 10 years.
NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba made public the party roadmap at a special programme organized at the party central office, Sanepa, on Tuesday.
NC manifesto stated that the party would come up with plans, policies and programme to address country needs to continually attain high economic growth rate from 7 to 10 per cent and generate 300,000 to 500,000 employment opportunities every year.in order to graudate to the status of the country with dynamic economy and middle income.
Towards realizing the goal, the NC would mobilize domestic and foreign investment in an unprecedented manner. “The investment would be attracted to the areas of energy, tourism and agriculture along with productive industry, innovative technologies and trade services”, the manifesto reads.
Through the manifesto, the NC has made firm commitment to comply with fundamental values of the new Constitution and put all-out efforts to implement the national charter of the country.
In order to materialize the commitments, the party is set to mobilize its entire political power, organizational base and mechanisms. The party has termed this document not only a galore of commitments but the true resolution for the elevation of the country.
Nepali Congress would lay special emphasis on enhancing skills of youths to bring wave for entrepreneurship at local level and expanding the activities related to agriculture, energy, small and middle industry and tourism.
According to manifesto, the party’s goal is to increase productivity through improved seeds, accessible loan and insurance, alternative energy, small hydel projects and irrigation schemes.
Employment
NC has floated a plan to execute ‘Youth Enterprises Challenge Fund’ to promote self-employment by incentivizing youths of rural and urban areas. A subsidized financial programme of 25+25+50 would be put in place targeting the youths from 16 to 45 years to inject dynamic youths towards promoting entrepreneurship.
Under the programme, the youth entrepreneurs would engage 25 % of the investment on their own; 25 % would be provided as grants and remaining 50 % would be channelized as concessional loan.
Agriculture and Mines
The party has come up with a plan to engage local community involved in the management of natural resources such as agriculture, land, labour, irrigation and drinking water as a reliable partner for modernization of agriculture sector and boosting productivity.
The NC has the commitment that the local government would ensure the participation of local community in natural resource management working on the assumption of ‘Water, Land, Forest, Herbals and Watershed – foundation of Prosperity of Local People’.
The party would encourage the local government to develop policy on the protection and use of mines and minerals.
In keeping with the spirit of the local development project and fiscal federalism, the party has the plan to directly channelize more than 50 % of the share fo the federal budget (i.e. around 600 billion in coming fiscal year) to province, municipalities and rural municipalities from the Singha Durbar, the manifesto reads.
Social security
NC has floated an idea to increase monthly social security allowance being distributed to senior citizens and people with disabilities in a remarkable manner and revise the allowance in every two years.
The manifesto has also noted that the facilities related to residence, meal, health, spiritual engagement, entertainment and visits would be provided to senior citizens in a free of cost.
NC has set its vision to create democratic socialist state with equitable society and proportional representation where citizens would be prospered, healthy, educated and active and society would be with good will and unity.
Similarly, the NC has made resolution to achieve 100 percent literacy among 15 to 24 years of age group in five years. The local government will make the polytechnic education more accessible and quality focused.
Every school will have monthly health check up and basic treatment facility. Every rural municipality will have a 15-bed hospital with maternity facility.
Within two years, the country will augment the energy productions remarkably. The local government will adopt the policy of providing electricity with discounting 50 percent tariff.
The irrigation system developed the farmers would be made more reliable, sustainable and modern.
In the sector of information and communications, the NC has announced to allow the operation of FM radio with 100 Watt capacity in the local level. The local government itself would give permission for operation of internet, telecenters and television and their renewal. The public welfare advertisements would be promoted for the newspapers at local level. In order to build the informed citizenry, the party would launch a one ward one bulletin campaign. RSS
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