FNCCI asks, HMG to probe failure of Hetauda Textile Industry

BY STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, May 17: Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) Pradeep Kumar Shrestha asked the government to identify factors that have caused to close down the Hetauda Textile Industry Limited and adopt concrete measures to resume the factory.

If the government can’t not run the textile industry, it should be privatised with the involvement of employees and labourers, Shrestha told the delegates of Makawanpur branch of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) here today.

FNCCI will initiate to the releasing of the fund, which the government has decided to provide to the employees of the factory, he said.

Headed by MCCI President Keshav Shrestha, the delegation includes Makawanpur District Development Committee President Rameshwor Rana, representatives from Association of Narayani Transport Entrepreneurs, political parties and Trade Unions.

Meanwhile in Biratnagar, Morang Chamber of Commerce (MCC), country’s oldest chamber of commerce, is organising various programmes to mark the completion of its fifty years of establishment here tomorrow.

The MCC has decided to provide economic assistance to build the Secretariat office for its associations of Chamber of Commerce and Industry operating in Koshi zone.

Likewise, it plans to honour industrialists who have played vital role in the preservation of environment on the occasion.

MCC has conducted various social activities since its establishment fifty years ago. It has set up free Homeopathy medical centre, Maternity Home at Koshi Zonal Hospital, building of Janata Law Campus and gravelling of road from Ghinaghat to the Birat Chowk, according to the MCC working committee chairman Uday Prasad Ojha.