Today,
the new Co-operative Promotion Center building for District Co-operative Union
Limited Lalitpur, built with Government of India’s financial assistance of NRs.
35 Million was inaugurated by Ms Namgya C. Khampa, Deputy Chief the Embassy of
India to Nepal. Sh Uday Rana, former Minister of Finance, Government of Nepal,
Sh Madhav Dulal, Chairman of the Co-operative Union Limited, Lalitpur Mr Gyan
Bahadur Tamng, National Cooperative Bank/Chairman District Co-operative Union
Ltd., Kathmandu, Sh Surendra Bhandari, Chairman, Nepal
Central Multipurpose Cooperative Union & Coordinator, National Cooperative
Development Board, Mr.
Dipak Baskota, Former Chairman, National Union of Nepal & National
Co-operative Development Board and Embassy officials,officer bearers, representatives
of District Coordination Committee attended the inauguration event.
2. The new building of the Cooperative
Union built under ‘Nepal-Bharat Development Cooperation’ has three floors. The
first floor will be used for open market, second floor has office and training
rooms, multipurpose hall, a resource center, cafeteria and part of the
multipurpose basement will also be used for parking. The project was taken up
as a High Impact Community Development Project and implemented by District
Coordination Committee, Lalitpur.
3. Since 2003, India has completed 446 High
Impact Community Development Projects (HICDPs) in Nepal, of which 84 are in
Province 3, including 9 in Lalitpur District. In addition to above the Embassy
of India has gifted 18 ambulances and 9 school buses to various health posts,
NGO and educational institutes in Lalitpur District. HICDPs are small
development projects with an estimated cost of less than NRs 5 cr and are implemented
through district/municipal authorities to create infrastructure in priority
areas such as health, education, agriculture, connectivity such as bridges,
sanitation and public utilities, capacity building and vocational training,
health camps in rural/remote areas, etc. These projects provide immediate
benefitting the people of the project area.
4. Established in 1972, the District
Cooperative Union Ltd. Lalitpur (DCULL) has about 765 cooperatives as its
member societies with over 3,50,000 membership. The newly constructed
Cooperative Promotion Centre is envisaged to enhance the marketing capability
of the cooperatives and their farmer members and establish direct linkage
between farmers and consumers. The building is also structured to serve as an
Information Centre for marketing agricultural products.
5. India has been a steadfast and development
partner of Nepal. Though this project, the Embassy of India complements the effort
of Government of Nepal will support agriculture sector. To support holistic
development solutions, in the last two years, India has also trained 59
agriculture scientists, farmers and agriculture policy makers in the areas of
organic farming, soil testing and fertilizer science in premier Indian
agriculture centers in National Capital Region of Delhi. Both Governments are
also working towards establishing model
veterinary hospitals and veterinary laboratories in Nepal.
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Kathmandu, Nepal
10 March, 2021
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