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News In Brief
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On March 23, 2009, senior leader of united Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-Maoist) Narayan Kaji Shrestha met with Former Prime Minister and senior leader of Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba, Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist-Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML) Jhalanath Khanal, and senior leader of the CPN-UML KP Oli separately and had talked with them on the matters of mutual interest.
On March 23, 2009, speaking to the reporters in his hometown Biratnagar, former Prime Minister and President of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala said that if the Maoists would strictly follow all the previous agreements then his party might think of whether to join the government or not.
Chairman of the Constituent Assembly Subhash Chandra Nemwang told the reporters that almost all the Constituent Assembly members gone to districts for collecting the opinions of the grassroots level people about a new constituent to be formulated returned with the large amount of opinions, then the question was to analyze the suggestions provided by the people and incorporated them in a new constitution.
Speaking at the program held on the occasion of the World Water Day, Minister for Physical Planning and Works Bijaya Kumar Gacchadar said that the government would soon bring out a program for mitigating the problem of drinking water shortage in Kathmandu, and Kathmanduites would receive water from the Melamchi Drinking water Project within five years.
The Chinese company that has received the contract for constructing 30 km long tunnel for bringing water from the Melamchi River to Sundarijal in Kathmandu said that the company would complete the construction of the tunnel in 30 months from the date of starting the work on it provided no strikes or shutdowns of Nepal would hinder in working; the company has already started off bringing the necessary equipment via Lhasa, Tibetan capital to Nepal.
The Government of Nepal is considering the import of 500 MW electricity from India. The concerned Indian company has already submitted the rate of electricity and of transmission to Nepal the company could sell the power and transmit it to Nepal. If the Government of Nepal accepts the proposed rates of power and its transmission, power would be available to Nepal within eighteen months according to the Radio Nepal morning news of March 24, 2009.
