{"id":21581,"date":"2025-04-24T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:48:12","slug":"appoint-governor-soon-nc-spokesperson-mahat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/appoint-governor-soon-nc-spokesperson-mahat\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint governor soon: NC Spokesperson Mahat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, April 24: Spokesperson of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Sharan Mahat, has said the appointment of governor at Nepal Rastra Bank must not be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>During a dialogue organized by the BP Chintan Pratisthan and the Parliamentary Study and Development Foundation on &#8216;Priorities of Upcoming Budget&#8217; here Thursday, Spokesperson Mahat viewed professional person irrespective of political faith must be appointed as the NRB governor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is worrying to delay governor appointment,&#8221; he said, adding the person who keeps in centre the national economy must be chosen for the position. Also the former finance minister, Mahat viewed, &#8220;Budget must be based on need and priorities along with guarantee of resources. A balanced and disciplined budget is need of hour.&#8221; He suggested the provisions to curtail administrative spending and increase the capital spending.<\/p>\n<p>The former finance minister claimed that it was a wrong trend to bring a big budget. The areas to focus by the budget are social security, education, tourism, information technology and production, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>NC leader Dip Kumar Upadhyay said the budget must concentrate on how the national economy could be improved.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Prof Dr Govind Raj Pokhrel, said the government&#8217;s attention is imperative in the sectors ensuring investment return and infrastructure development. &#8220;Capacity development and investment in mega hydro project are other areas to dwell on,&#8221; he added, suggesting curtailment of extravagant spending.<\/p>\n<p>Policy and structural reforms are suggested by former Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Dr Pushpa Raj Kandel.<\/p>\n<p>Another former Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dipendra Bahadur Chhetri, viewed a balanced and investable budget is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 24: Spokesperson of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Sharan Mahat, has said the appointment of governor at Nepal Rastra Bank must not be delayed. During a dialogue organized by the BP Chintan Pratisthan and the Parliamentary Study and Development Foundation on &#8216;Priorities of Upcoming Budget&#8217; here Thursday, Spokesperson Mahat viewed professional person irrespective of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}