Expertise needed for development, says Mandal

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LALITPUR, Feb. 23: Deputy Prime Minister Badri Prasad Mandal, who is also holding the portfolio of the Prime Minister, has said that technical know-how and expertise is highly essential for a developing country such as ours.

Addressing an interaction programme concerning governmental and private engineering services for institutional structure organised by the Nepal Engineers Association (NEA) here today, he said that the country needed technical personnel to take the physical development ahead in the present situation when cease-fire was in force.

Stating that the present government had given emphasis on decentralisation because of the importance of the concept of local self-governance in a democratic system, he said that projects for local development should be selected in line with the wishes of the local people.

The government had no desire to discourage the engineers in the implementation of the district infrastructure development projects, he made it clear.NEA president Narayan Govind Halwai and its general secretary Bharat Pahari also expressed their views while engineer of the Department of Roads Bhim Upadhyay presented a working paper on infrastructure development in local development and the limited role of engineering profession.Participants at the programme laid emphasis on the need to accord priority to the engineers in the selection and implementation of development projects.

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