Cabinet meeting: Decision to accept US grant aid

Mangshir 16, 2081

Kantipur Reporter

Cabinet meeting: Decision to accept US grant aid

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The cabinet meeting has decided to accept 20 million USD cash grant aid. It has been decided to give the responsibility of approving and signing the draft of the agreement exchange letter to the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Prithvisubba Gurung, who is also the spokesperson of the government, informed the mediapersons that the Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister's residence, Baluwatar, took the decision. He said that the cabinet meeting also decided to approve the agreement to accept the proposed financial and technical grant aid of 300 million RMB Chinese yuan. The authority to sign the proposal has also been given to the Finance Secretary. 

The development plan from 2025 to 2029 has also been approved by today's cabinet meeting. The responsibility of signing it has been given to the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

Similarly, Minister Gurung informed that the cabinet meeting also approved the memorandum of understanding between public service broadcasting organizations (Radio Nepal and Nepal Television) and China Media Group (CMG). It is said that the agreement regarding this will be made during Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's visit to China from Monday.

The cabinet meeting has decided to approve the Memorandum of Understanding prepared between the Government of Nepal and the Chinese Government for the implementation of the Volunteer Chinese Language Teacher Training Program in Nepal. It has been decided to request the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to sign and implement the MoU.

Cabinet meeting has decided to promote Technical Joint Secretary Ram Prasad Ghimire as Technical Secretary. The meeting also decided to wish Prime Minister Oli's best wishes for his successful visit to China from 17th to 20th of November. Prime Minister Oli is making an official visit to China at the friendly invitation of Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang. 

The MoU (Letter of Expression) scheduled during Prime Minister Oli's visit includes the improvement of the Kathmandu Ring Road, the fourth phase of the Araniko highway improvement, the Hilsa-Simikot road project, the project related to the arrangement of the Korola border crossing, the Tokha-Chhare tunnel route and others.&nbsp ;

Similarly, BP Koirala Cancer Hospital Chitwan has projects including starting bone marrow transplant treatment. One hundred electric vehicles, one hundred  Minister Gurung informed that as the discussions progressed during Prime Minister Oli's visit, there could be concrete achievements in this matter as well.

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