{"id":406974,"date":"2025-04-29T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=406974"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:25:30","slug":"infrastructure-development-is-governments-priority-minister-rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/04\/29\/406974.html","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure development is government&#8217;s priority: Minister Rai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 29:\u00a0 Minister for Defence, Manbir Rai, has said the government has accelerated the implementation physical infrastructure endevours under the projects of national pride.<\/p>\n<p>In the today&#8217;s meeting of the Committee for Monitoring and Evaluating the Implementation of the State&#8217;s Directive Principles, Policies and Obligations, he said this while responding concerns from lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, he proposed the need of considering the size of projects of national pride,\u00a0 calling for selecting only feasible projects.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmaker Mohammed Khalid demanded the review of criteria in regard with projects of national pride.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister apprised the meeting that a road project in Kimathanka of Sankhuwasabha is being blacktopped, sharing of the government&#8217;s plan to proceed with the construction of a road in Olangchunggola in the district.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, especially the Kathmandu-Terai Madhesh Fast Track and the construction of other various corridors are the responsibilities of the Ministry and the Nepal Army is the implementing body of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, it has been challenging to secure the expected progress,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>As he said, the government&#8217;s priorities should be set on the basis of the status of poverty, adding that poor identity card is the durable instrument to address the poverty issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 29:\u00a0 Minister for Defence, Manbir Rai, has said the government has accelerated the implementation physical infrastructure endevours under the projects of national pride. In the today&#8217;s meeting of the Committee for Monitoring and Evaluating the Implementation of the State&#8217;s Directive Principles, Policies and Obligations, he said this while responding concerns from lawmakers. Similarly, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-406974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406975,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974\/revisions\/406975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406974"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=406974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}