Preparations for restarting the ailing Biratnagar Jute Mill

Tikaraj Dhakal of Biratnagar, Mukund Nepal, Treasury and Accounts Control Office and Head of Commercial Office have been designated as members of the committee. Chairman Karki said that in the first phase, the committee was given the responsibility of auditing the industry, conducting general meetings and protecting the assets of the industry. He said that the process of operating the industry will start after the completion of the first phase.

Earlier, India's Tata company returned after inspecting the machinery and physical infrastructure of the mill, showing its interest in operating the mill. After the said company inspected the machinery and physical infrastructure of the mill, the government formed the board of directors. Tata had released a report that 72 percent of the mill's machinery could be reused.

This industry, which was established in 1993, had been without a board of directors since 2078. In the name of this industry, which has 68 percent share of the government, it owns 68 and a half bighas in Biratnagar and 9 and a half bighas in Damak in Jhapa. The history of the political journey of Girija Prasad Koirala and Manmohan Adhikari started from the labor movement in this mill premises in 2003 and 2007.

Before 2048, this mill, which was producing 45 tons of jute preparations per day, had been shut down several times due to the board of directors who had political appointments since 2048. According to the then employee of the mill, Kishore Subba, in 2066, on the initiative of the then chairman of the board of directors, Ashok Pokharel, the government closed the mill by disbursing Rs. After that, India's industrial group Winsome International operated the mill on lease for 25 years under the condition of paying 13.5 million annually to the government, but it closed the mill in October 2071.

After 2048, the board of directors changed and it was used as a political recruitment center. Since then, the board of directors has worked to add financial burden to the name of the mill rather than running the mill. According to the mill's data, the board of directors has changed 19 times since 2048. Till 2052, the mill was making annual profit of 28 crores. At that time the daily production was 45 tons. Taranatha Timsina, then head of administration of the mill, says that after the mill was turned into a political recruitment center, the daily production dropped to 20 tons.

In the year 2051, during the UML government, Subodhraj Payakurel was appointed as the president. Badri Prasad Ghimire of Congress became the president after the fall of the UML government. After Ghimire, the Congress appointed Keshav Prasad Adhikari as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Soon after the RPP government was formed, Kedar Koirala became the president. After Koirala left, Dilip Dhadewal of the then Sadbhavana Party became the president. After Dhadewal, UML made Keshav Prasad Gautam its president.

After him, UML made Hari Ghimire the president. After that, Nirmal Vyas, Jeevan Nepal, Manoj Upadhyay and Govind Kusum became presidents. After that Golcha Organization ran this mill for one and a half years. During the Raja's tenure, the then joint secretary of the Ministry of Industry was in charge of the mill. After the agitation of 2062/63, Phulkumar Lavavani of the Congress became the president. After him Mukunda Prasad Nepal and Ashok Pokharel were presidents of the mill, according to the data.

In 2072, Neelhari Kafle became the president on the recommendation of the then Industry Minister Mahesh Basnet. During his time, old materials in the industry and shares held in the name of the government were sold. Of the 62,727 shares held by the government, Kafle sold 35,000 shares.

After it was not approved by the company registrar's office, Kafle made Vasant one the chairman and he became the managing director and the mill was closed. The 46 employees they hired at that time have not been paid yet. The then head of administration, Taranath Timsina, said that those employees are yet to receive service facilities worth 1.5 crores.