New Nepal map to replace old one in Rs. 100 banknote

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, May 4: The government has decided to accept Rs. 13.33 billion loan assistance to be provided by the World Bank.

Speaking at a press conference organised on Friday to make public the Cabinet decisions, Minister for Communication and Information Technology Rekha Sharma said that the Cabinet meeting endorsed the visit of Attorney General Dr. Dinmani Pokhrel and Deputy Attorney General Sanjeev Raj Regmi to India to take part in the Regional Meeting for the Launch of the Regional Programme for South Asia (RPSA) meeting to be held on May 6.

The Cabinet meeting authorised the Ministry of Finance to change the structure of the Nepali currency note of rupees 100 denomination by replacing the old administrative map of Nepal with a new map of Nepal in its background.

The government has also approved India visit of Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya to India to observe the ongoing election from May 4 to 9, according to the Minister. 

The Cabinet meeting has also given authority to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish a Bilateral Consultative Mechanism between the Ministries of Nepal and Spain and ink an agreement between the two to maintain the hierarchy.

Upon the proposal of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, the government has scrapped the National Information Technology Development Committee (formation) order 2058 B.S, according to Minister Sharma. 

Similarly, the Cabinet meeting has transferred six secretaries of the government of Nepal to different offices. As per the decision, Secretary of the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Dr. Ganesh Prasad Pandey was transferred to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Secretary Dr. Govinda Prasad Sharma of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Livestock Development to the Ministry of Forest and Environment, Dr. Deepak Kumar Khanal from the Ministry of Forest as secretary to Livestock Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. 

Similarly, Secretary Dr. Deepak Kafle of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has been transferred to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Rewati Raman Paudel of the Livestock Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to the Agriculture Development of the same Ministry and Radhika Aryal, Chief Secretary from the Office of Chief Minister and Provincial Council of Ministers, Lumbini, to the Office of Vice-President, Kathmandu.

Likewise, the Cabinet meeting held on April 25 endorsed the National Startup Enterprise Policy-2024 and transferred 28 Joint Secretaries of the first class of different services.