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KMTNC to get Japanese aid of around Rs 2.5 M BY A STAFF REPORTER Kathmandu, Sept. 4: The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC) is to receive a grant assistance of US $ 33,450 equivalent to about Rs. 2,497,000 from the Embassy of Japan, according to a press release of the Japanese Embassy here. The grant, provided under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GGP) Scheme of the Government of Japan in Japan’s Fiscal Year 2001, is to be utilised for the implementation of the Manasalu Conservation Area Project. A grant contract to this effect was signed and exchanged here today between Mitsuaki Kojima, Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, and Jai Pratap Rana, Member Secretary of KMTNC, the press release further states. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Japanese envoy Kojima expressed his pleasure in extending the grant to KMTNC for the purpose of providing drinking water and sanitation facilities top the local inhabitants of the Conservation Area. He expressed the belief that this project will help in improving the well-being of the people compatible with the conservation of the natural heritage in that area. The KMTNC, in 1997, had initiated an eco-tourism development project in the northern part of Gorkha district through the Department of Tourism of His Majesty’s Government, with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank. The Manaslu region was declared a conservation area in 1998. The responsibility of the nature conservation activities was given to KMTNC for a period of ten years. The objective of the project was to improve the socio-economic conditions of the local people leading to the conservation of the region. Under the grant contract, KMTNC will carry out the sustainable development component of the project by constructing seven drinking water systems and seven community toilets in different parts of the conservation area, the press release adds. Other Stories |
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