Concept paper of second five-year plan of Gandaki released

The Gandaki Province Policy and Planning Commission has unveiled the concept paper of the second five-year plan of the province. At a program held in Pokhara today, Vice Chair of the Commission, Dr. Krishna Chandra Devkota, released the concept paper, while noting that the regional goals of achieving productivity, social justice and social development have been determined for the second five-year plan. The concept papers includes three provincial objectives, eight overall strategies and 14 primary areas for achieving the target. The objective of the plan is to increase quality infrastructure and production, employment and income, and build human capital. Likewise, Devkota said that equitable distribution of the development benefits, establishing social justice, providing quality public services and enhancing good governance are also the objectives of the plan. It also identifies transformative programs and projects for the development of the province to be implemented with the investment of the provincial government. On the occasion, Devkota shared that province and local level partnership programs, province-federal partnership programs, programs conducted with foreign aid, public-private partnership programs, programs and projects conducted with private sector investment have been identified. Source: National News Agency Nepal