RSP MPs Question Industry Minister on Sick Industries

Kathmandu. National Independent Party MPs have asked Industry, Commerce and Supply Minister Gauri Kumari questions about sick industries. MPs asked such questions after responding to questions raised in the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday.

MP Ashish Gajurel asked the Industry Minister when which sick industry would come into operation. He demanded a clear action plan, stating that this government, like the previous governments, has only come up with studying sick industries and creating modalities.

MP Ashish Gajurel said that the public is getting tired of hearing about the government studying sick industries and creating modalities, and demanded information about when which industry would come into operation.

Industry Minister Kumari said that government sick industries would be brought into operation in a PPP model. She informed that the sick Hetauda Cotton Industry would come into operation first. She informed that Butwal Dhago, Kapas and Hetauda Cotton Industry would come into operation this year.

Similarly, MP Bidushi Rana asked, when will a regular dialogue and coordination mechanism between the government and the private sector be brought into operation regarding industrial promotion and investment facilitation, and what concrete initiatives has the ministry taken for it?

Similarly, MP Rana said that interaction with tea, coffee, dairy and footwear industrialists is planned.

When will concrete policies related to necessary protection, capital concession and incentives to make domestic and other manufacturing industries competitive internationally, not just limited to interaction, be implemented? She asked two such questions.