{"id":431405,"date":"2026-06-18T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431405"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:01:27","slug":"investment-in-innovation-sector-helps-improve-countrys-economy-minister-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/18\/431405.html","title":{"rendered":"Investment in innovation sector helps improve country&#8217;s economy: Minister Pun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahabir Pun, has shared that the country&#8217;s economy could be improved by investing in the innovation sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to queries raised in the course of discussion on the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation under the Appropriation Bill in today&#8217;s meeting of the House of Representatives, Minister Pun suggested all three-tier governments allocate one per cent of their capital budget for science and innovation development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned that providing means and resources along with an appropriate environment, for human resources having innovative ideas for creative works is innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing out the need for cooperation and collaboration of all to make innovation effective, the Science and Technology Minister underlined, &#8220;Laws, acts and rules related to innovation should be made to start the activities related to science and innovation.&#8221; He shared that preparation has been made to make nine regulations related to innovation based on the regulations of the Science and Technology Statistics Act, Nepal Government Work Division Regulations, 2083. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry has a plan to introduce the Science, Technology and Innovation Act, 2083, the Science Act, Atomic Energy Act, National Research and Development Act, as well as other necessary acts, he mentioned. Minister Pun viewed that infrastructure development and formulating laws are necessary to make the Ministry&#8217;s activities effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing the view that a developing country like Nepal should emphasise innovation, he added, &#8220;Youths will get employment in the country due to this and the country&#8217;s economy will grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Pun suggested all three-tier governments allocate one per cent of their capital budget for science and innovation development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":431406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431405"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431408,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431405\/revisions\/431408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431405"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}