{"id":53420,"date":"2026-08-22T20:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53420"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:49:27","slug":"minister-asks-officials-to-work-in-integrated-manner-for-flood-control-irrigation-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/minister-asks-officials-to-work-in-integrated-manner-for-flood-control-irrigation-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister asks officials to work in integrated manner for flood control, irrigation supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sunsari, Aug. 22: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha on Saturday inspected the Sunsarikhola embankment site at Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-4 in Sunsari district.<\/p>\n<p>Inspecting the under-construction project, Minister Shrestha instructed the concerned bodies to work for flood control, river management and irrigation supply in an integrated approach.<\/p>\n<p>After the inspection, Minister Shrestha held discussions with the local community members and people&#8217;s representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Shrestha directed the Department of Water Resources and Irrigation to immediately identify and implement the projects for irrigation supplies and reduce the flood-induced disaster risks.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Minister viewed that sustainable river management planning should be advanced in a parallel way to reduce disaster risks.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Minister Shrestha enquired about the status of power supply, transmission line and power infrastructures in the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged to work with new strategies to gradually address the challenges in the energy sector and also work for policy reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunsari, Aug. 22: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha on Saturday inspected the Sunsarikhola embankment site at Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-4 in Sunsari district. Inspecting the under-construction project, Minister Shrestha instructed the concerned bodies to work for flood control, river management and irrigation supply in an integrated approach. After the inspection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53420"}],"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=53420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53425,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53420\/revisions\/53425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}