April 11: A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday approved a proposal received from the infrastructure committee of the Council of Ministers on testing the maximum level of pesticides in all the imported goods for consumption. 

Emerging from the meeting, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma, who is also the government's spokesperson, said that the meeting also took seriously to the statements made by the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) on garbage collection from Sheetal Niwas, Baluwatar and Singhadurbar.   

The cabinet meeting has taken the statements made by the KMC Mayor Balendra Sah seriously and has drawn his attention to abide by the policy-level provisions on garbage collection, and take the initiatives for garbage collection, said Minister Sharma. 

Furthermore, the cabinet meeting appointed Govinda Acharya as the Press Advisor to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Minister Sharma said.

Journalist Acharya is the former Chairman of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) as well. -- RSS