Kathmandu. Bhagirath Sapkota has been elected as the president of the Nepali Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Sapkota was unanimously elected as the president at the third general convention of the federation held on Saturday.
The two-day general convention in Kathmandu was inaugurated by Prime Minister and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli. Similarly, Subarna Shrestha has been elected as the vice-president of the federation for the open category, while Shobha Gurung has been unanimously elected for the women’s category.
While Balkrishna Shiwakoti has been elected as the general secretary of the federation, Dim Prasad Poudel has been elected as the deputy general secretary. Similarly, Gopal Khanal, Ramraja Shrestha, Dolnath Khanal and Saroj Yadav have been elected as the secretaries. Rajkumar Timilsina has been elected as the accounting commissioner, Tanka Raut as the election commissioner, and Balaram Bhattarai as the discipline commissioner. The general convention has unanimously elected a 99-member central committee in a regional manner.
Newly elected president Bhagirath Sapkota said that he will work in the interests of all industrialists and businessmen across the country after assuming leadership of the federation.
‘We will take the Federation of Nepal Industries and Businessmen forward as an umbrella organization with representation of small, domestic to medium and large industrialists,’ he said. ‘Nowadays, many industrialists and businessmen are in trouble. I express my commitment to work in their interests.’
Informing that the federation is still working in the interests of small and medium industrialists, he expressed his commitment to form a federation that all industrialists can join in the coming days. He also believes that the government should introduce the ‘Enterprise Oxygen Program’, saying that Nepal’s business community is currently going through a complex and difficult situation in history.
‘We believe that Nepal’s business community, which has been going through a difficult situation for a long time due to problems created by external circumstances such as the global Corona pandemic and the subsequent Russia-Ukraine war, should not face a difficult situation in the coming days,’ he said. ‘The ordinance that was recently issued has helped small, medium and large businessmen who are going through such a situation to some extent.’
But the government should come up with a dynamic program to revive and encourage this sector and make it move smoothly.
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