Udaya Raj Adhikari's Blog

1. Background ¨   Development of essential public infrastructure and services (including roads, bridges, airports, modern means of communication, drinking water, irrigation, electricity, railways, cable car, ropeways ) is imperative for achieving sustainable economic growth of the country.  ¨   The means and resources allocated from national treasury fall short of what is required for the construction and operation of infrastructure services. ¨   It is desirable to make assets of public utility and operation of public services less costly, effective and reliable. ¨   For this the means, resources, skills and technology available with the private sector must be attracted towards development works of the nation based on the concept of Public Private Partnership (PPP). ¨   It is believed that the contribution of infrastructure services built on this model is crucial and effective for providing momentum to economic development and ¨   ...

The National Planning Commission has drafted an Approach Paper to graduate from a least developed country to a developing country by 2022 .This is part of government plan announced in the 12th periodic plan and reinforced in the 13th plan. The approach paper to 13th Plan envisages Nepal to graduate to a developing country by 2022. Nepal is one of the 48 LDCs in the world. For Nepal to graduate to a developing country it has to meet two of the three criteria the United Nations has set: gross national income per capita and the threshold for human asset index which includes health, and nutrition index and Education index. The draft strategy says that Nepal will have to post an economic growth rate of 9.2% every year until 2022 to meet the criteria of Human Development Index, Human Asset Index and Economic Vulnerability Index and invest 17 trillion rupees over the next nine year. From National Human Development Report (2017) : A Least Developed Country, according to the United Natio...