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Nepal Infrastructure Summit- 2017 Starting Today

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Nepal Infrastructure Summit- 2017 Starting Today
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February 19: ‘The Infrastructure Summit- 2017’ organised by the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) is starting today.

The Summit is organized with an objective of helping in the economic development of the country by attracting huge investments from the private sector, strengthening regional connection and partnership by realizing the rationale of investment in infrastructure sector.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is inaugurating the two-day Summit starting Sunday. The summit which is jointly organized by the Government of Nepal and the Youth Community for Nepalese Contractors (YCNC) is focusing on private sector for indispensable partnership.

Similarly, more than 30 experts from industry sector, ministers from the government, policy makers and development partners will be participating in the programme. According to the organizers, former PM Baburam Bhattarai, former finance ministers and ministers of Nepal, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Department for International Development (DFID) (UK), International Finance Corporation (IFC), officials from diplomatic missions and representatives will also be participating in the programme.

Indian Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has also arrived here on February 18 to participate in the Summit. Hari Bhakta Sharma, President of CNI informed that the arrival of speakers and participants is continuing.

The Summit will discuss among other things, the possibility of public-private partnership (PPP), successful model of  regional and international level of partnership, the state of infrastructure development, essential environment for growth of investment, infrastructure market, value proposition, flexible financial system and green infrastructure.

Likewise, this Summit will also include ‘infrastructure idea hunt’ as a new subject. People with new ideas in infrastructure development area of the country can present their ideas in the summit. For the purpose, the organizers have already selected 10 ideas in co-work with the Idea Solution.

 

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