Kathmandu. Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha and the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) held a meeting today. A team led by CNI President Birendra Raj Pandey on Monday held discussions on the development of energy sector. <\/p>\n
On the occasion, Chairman Pandey stressed the need of adopting a policy to increase electricity consumption. He suggested implementing the policy of allowing the industries to produce necessary energy and broadcast it by charging wheeling charge and to adopt a policy to allow the private sector for internal and international trade of electricity. He urged the government to immediately sign Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with all the projects that have completed survey after taking approval from the Government of Nepal and are yet to sign power purchase agreement, to adopt a policy to increase internal consumption of electricity and to make arrangements to replace fossil fuel-based industries with electricity-based equipment. He also stressed the need to pay attention to alternative energy sources. <\/p>\n
On the occasion, Minister Shrestha said that the government was committed to working together with the private sector for the overall development of energy sector. He said the government was doing homework on ways to increase the domestic consumption along with the export of electricity. According to him, the government has given high priority to the strategy of increasing the consumption of reservoirs, renewable energy and electricity. He said that the energy sector is expecting clear suggestions from the private sector on how to increase its contribution to the GDP. <\/p>\n
Vice President Gokul Bhandari, office bearers member Bidushi Rana, President of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) Youth Entrepreneur Forum Manish Shrestha, Director General Dr. Ghanashyam Ojha and others were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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