December 13: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said green energy has huge potential in Nepal. He also laid emphasis on properly capitalizing the potentials of 'clean energy, green energy'.

Laying the foundation stone of 'women entrepreneurs green industrial park' to be constructed in Panchkhal municipality-7 of Kavrepalanchowk today, Prime Minister Dahal said clean energy-green energy will be put on priority while embarking on the new era of green revolution.

Dahal reasoned that switching to clean energy will mark a beginning of the campaign to end pollution in Nepal. “We should cash in on the vast array of the potentials of clean energy-green energy,” he added.

On the occasion, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat pledged to arrange budget for the green park to be constructed in Panchkhal in the next fiscal year while sharing that the government is scaling up the park construction in all seven provinces.

Panchkhal municipality's mayor Mahesh Kharel said the park will be constructed to promote women entrepreneurship and the initiative will be fruitful to add value to the local production.

The park is under construction at the initiative of the South Asian Women Development Forum in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Panchakhal municipality.

The park will have training center, store house, cold storage, packaging, processing, drying and grading of agriculture products.  (RSS)