{"id":288146,"date":"2026-02-20T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=288146"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:45:08","slug":"election-manifesto-what-are-the-agendas-of-congress-uml-and-rsp-for-share-market-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/election-manifesto-what-are-the-agendas-of-congress-uml-and-rsp-for-share-market-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Manifesto: What are the agendas of Congress, UML and RSP for share market expansion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The election to the House of Representatives is taking place on March 4. The political parties are busy in the election meetings and conferences targeted to the elected. The candidates of the parties are making various promises and agendas in their respective constituencies to woo the people. <\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which has emerged as a new force along with the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, has made public its election manifesto, affidavit and manifesto. These parties have also prioritized education, health, infrastructure development, agriculture, water resources as well as capital market in their manifestos. The parties seem to have put the interests of investors in their priority along with the development and expansion of the stock market. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>What are the parties&#8217; stock market agendas? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Nepali Congress<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> To make the Investor Protection Fund more effective to protect the interests of small investors. <\/li>\n<li> To establish a technology-friendly monitoring mechanism to increase confidence in the market and control unfair activities. <\/li>\n<li> Implement a state-of-the-art monitoring system to control insider trading and abnormal movements in the stock market. <\/li>\n<p>Develop a separate platform to enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to raise resources through the stock market.TAG_OPEN_li_65 <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li> Promote employment and entrepreneurship by linking the productive sector to the formal financial system. <\/li>\n<li> To make the Securities Board of Nepal completely autonomous. <\/li>\n<li> Structural reforms in NEPSE and CDSC to upgrade the Rafsaf system to world-class standards. <\/li>\n<li> Stock market and financial management education will be included in the curriculum from the school level and the stock market will be expanded nationwide. <\/li>\n<li> To implement a policy to facilitate Nepalis, Non-Resident Nepalese and the general public in foreign employment to the capital market through mobile app. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">CPN<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> To create investment opportunities for commercial agriculture, small and medium enterprises and stock market to utilize the remittances received from foreign employment in productive sectors. <\/li>\n<li> To mobilize investment, self-capital and long-term debt by effectively regulating, reforming and expanding the capital market. <\/li>\n<li> to protect the interests of the investors. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Implement a zero-tolerance policy against insider trading and market manipulation. <\/li>\n<li> to improve the IPO issuance system and ensure fair allotment, book building and timely listing. <\/li>\n<li> Intraday trading, short selling, futures, options and derivative financial instruments will be introduced in the capital market in a phased manner to make NEPSE of international standard. <\/li>\n<p>To increase the participation of the private sector by restructuring NEPSE and CDS and to develop competitive depository services.TAG_OPEN_li_53 <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li> To make the capital market transparent, safe and investment-friendly. <\/li>\n<li>} To make the capital market tax policy stable and investment-friendly and to activate government, local level and private sector bonds for the development of debt market and bond market. <\/li>\n<li> A policy will be implemented to facilitate the non-resident Nepalis who have been stalled for years to do business in NEPSE. <\/li>\n<li> The barter market will also be brought into operation as soon as possible. <\/li>\n<p>Modernize and TAG_OPEN_li_48 diversify capital markets by developing a variety of funds, derivatives markets, and risk management tools. <\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li> Financial literacy campaign to protect the interests of small investors. <\/li>\n<li> &#8216;Automated Reporting System&#8217; will be made mandatory to ensure transparency of financial statements of listed companies. <\/li>\n<li>} To make the capital market not only Kathmandu-centric and to make it easy to reach citizens and youths across the country through digital medium. <\/li>\n<li> To restructure the structure of the Securities Board by making necessary amendments to the Securities Act, 2063 and to ensure adequate manpower and autonomy. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The election to the House of Representatives is taking place on March 4. The political parties are busy in the election meetings and conferences targeted to the elected. The candidates of the parties are making various promises and agendas in their respective constituencies to woo the people. KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":288142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45159,45180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-news-en","category-stockmarket-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288147,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288146\/revisions\/288147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/288142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}