Minister for Forest and Environment Shakti Bahadur Basnet shared it with the House of Representatives session today. In his response to government queries, he said forest investment, protection and utilization programes had been prepared with the plan of connecting them to economic development and job creation campaign. He made it clear that budget allocated to the forest and environment sector in the upcoming fiscal was not less than of the current fiscal year.
It was capable of meeting the people’s expectation. He was responding to the concerns from lawmakers raised during the discussions of various headings of the appropriation bill relating to the ministry. The government has allocated Rs 11 billion to the sector of forest and environment. He clarified that the government had a clear policy of marking the upcoming year as the tree plantation year. He added that the government had a concrete policy to establish the timber based industries in the country.
Lawmaker Prem Suwal urged the government to pay attention to the increasing pollution and its impact to people. Similarly, lawmaker Dila Sangraula, Ram Bahadur Bista, Pushpa Bhusal questioned Minister Basnet on various contemporary issues including climate change and its impact in Nepal. In response to the questions of lawmakers, Minister Basnet said that the government was working out to implement the measures of lessening pollution in Kathmandu Valley. RSS
