{"id":31929,"date":"2025-09-25T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31929"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:04:30","slug":"unrest-in-aftermath-of-gen-z-protests-caused-five-per-cent-damage-to-gdp-cni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/unrest-in-aftermath-of-gen-z-protests-caused-five-per-cent-damage-to-gdp-cni\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrest in aftermath of Gen-Z protests caused five per cent damage to GDP: CNI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 25: President of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), Birendra Raj Pandey, has shared that the damage caused due to the vandalism and arson during Gen-Z protests is equivalent to nearly five per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).<\/p>\n<p>At a programme organised to welcome the new working committee of the Society of Economic Journalists Nepal today, President Pandey mentioned that attack on private sector in any agitation is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is huge destruction in private sector in recent agitation. The continuous attack on the private sector has not been stopped despite its remarkable contribution in country&#8217;s economy, as per the preliminary estimation, there is five per cent damage in GDP during the recent Gen-Z protest,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n<p>We have not been able to make understand about private sector&#8217;s contribution to the civil society, politicians and general people, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Problems will persist until people&#8217;s concept towards private sector is not changed. Our attention should be focused on increasing entrepreneurship and orienting youths towards it,&#8221; he opined.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that the protests have created doubt among investors, the CNI President emphasized that the government should pay attention to create investment-friendly environment.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, outgoing President of CNI, Rajesh Kumar Agrawal, expressed the view that it is necessary to take VAT to multi-rate system.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Koshi Province President of CNI, Pawan Kumar Sharada pointed out that the government should incorporate all sectors while making policies and should understand our situation while making laws.<\/p>\n<p>He underlined that the Gen-Z protest has created a new opportunity to take the country towards the path of good governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 25: President of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), Birendra Raj Pandey, has shared that the damage caused due to the vandalism and arson during Gen-Z protests is equivalent to nearly five per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). At a programme organised to welcome the new working committee of the Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929"}],"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=31929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31930,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929\/revisions\/31930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}