No resource constraints for healthy schemes: Dr. Mahat

Nuwakot, Sept. 1 (RSS): Minister for Finance Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat laid the foundation stone for the building of Nepal Children Organisation (NCO), Nuwakot to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 1 million.

On the occasion, Minister for Finance Dr. Mahat said there is no dearth of means and resources at the present moment to any person interested in getting involved in various schemes like those launched by the non-governmental organisations and private sector.

The civil society should also be active in order to stamp out corruption and control the misuse of authority, he added.

Central member of NCO Prachanda Pradhan asked the government to make budgetary allocations in accordance with the existing laws for the well-being of the children.

Nuwakot CDO Modraj Dotel, chairman of Bisheshwar with the Poor programme Bishnu Acharya and NC Nuwakot ex-president Dhruba Adhikari and vice-president of Nuwakot DDC Narayan Prasad Khatiwada expressed happiness over the construction of a building for the children at the inaugural function presided over by NCO Nuwakot district president Chandra Bahadur Acharya.

For the construction of the building, a fund of Rs. 800,000 will be borne by Langtang Foundation Uttargaiya, a non-governmental organisation and Rs. 166 thousand by the NCO.

Meanwhile, Minister for Finance Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat says that youths should shoulder the responsibility of building the nation.

Minister Mahat made this remark while inaugurating the Abiral Yuwa Library cum Auditorium at Bidur, the district headquarters of Nuwakot district, today.

Lauding the efforts made by the youths to set up the library, he assured them of constructive cooperation in any social work that is carried out by rising above personal interests.

The present government has introduced a progressive programme in order to ensure social justice in the country, he said.

Nuwakot DDC chairman Bharat Prasad Dhungana said Abiral Youth Society has become a model organisation in the district with the setting up of library in Bidur Municipality.

At the inaugural function held under the chairmanship of Abiral Yuba Society president Bishwa Raj Bhattarai, Nepali Congress Nuwakot district president Jagadishwar Narsingh K.C. pledged to extend financial and physical assistance to the library.

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