Kathmandu, June 22: Participants attending a discussion program emphasized on increasing investment on infrastructure, energy, agriculture, and tourism sector achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In an interaction organized by the National Planning Commission (NPC) here on Friday (June 21), they underlined private, public and individual activeness to achieve 17 SDGs, 161 result-oriented goals and 479 indexes.
NPC estimated annual investment worth over Rs 200 billion for the same. The available resources with the government are over Rs 800 billion while the private sector should invest annually Rs 700 billion. NPC Vice-Chairman Dr. Pushparaj Kandel spoke of the need for both the private and public sector to increase more investment to achieve sustainable development.
Likewise, NPC’s Secretary Laxman Aryal shared that the above-mentioned evaluation of investment was made when the economic growth rate was 8.6 percent while revenue’s proposition in the gross domestic production remained at 27 percent. The 15th five-year plan (fiscal years 2019-2023/24) prepared by the NPC will be implemented from the mid-August which has emphasized development and promotion of physical infrastructure, energy, agriculture, and tourism sectors to attain economic prosperity and sustainable development. RSS
