Yadav appointed NPC member

The government has appointed Umashankar Prasad Yadav from Rautahat as the National Planning Commission (NPC) member.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at Singha Durbar on Thursday decided to appoint Yadav as the member of the NPC.

Similarly, the meeting decided to form the National Trade Facilitation Committee with the participation of the private sector.  The Committee is headed by Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Ramesh Rijal, according to Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma.

Likewise, Bikram Rai, the member of the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) Board of Directors, has been appointed as the NAC vice-chair.

Lekhnath Lama from Sindhupalchowk and Dr Sahara Shrestha from Kathmandu have been appointed the members of the Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital Development Board.

The meeting also granted the permission to the government to present the Bill to revise the Secured Transaction Act, 2063 BS (2006) to the Federal Parliament.