07 May 2019, Kathmandu
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the incumbent government has only dreamt of projects that are realistic and feasible.
He said this while replying to lawmakers’ questions duringthe discussions on the government’s policies and programmes for fiscal year 2019/20 in the meeting of the House of Representatives today.
“The government has talked of the dreams that can be visualized while one is awake. It has dreamt of nation building,” he said, insisting that the present government was not talking of dreams that one sees during sleep but the dreams of developing the country and building its bright future.
He stated: “This is about the dream as to what could be done in one year and what could be done in the succeeding years, and where the country could reach. It is about the dream of achieving the sustainable development goals. It is the UN’s dream. This is not a dream seen at night; it is the dream that can be fulfilled.”
Making it clear that the policies and programmes planned for the coming fiscal year would take forward the democracy in the wider sense, he said the policies and programmes document has presented a clear vision regarding how to go about in the coming five years, 10 years and 25 years.
“The constitution has conceptualized social justice and equality and the government has brought its policies and programmes to fulfill the same conceptualization, the PM said, adding that works have been carried out to do away with weaknesses and backwardness that remained in society.
He further added that the policies and programmes have adopted the policy of all working together to unify the nation on the basis of broader social justice and equality and not on varied communal and regional narrow-mindedness.
Stating that the policies and programmes has emphasized on education and health for nation building and prosperity, PM said good governance and corruption control were inevitable for development. There is no need to be confused regarding the government’s policies and programmes, he argued.
He suggested that the population entangled agriculture could be made to opt for other jobs through the modernization and commercialization of agriculture, stressing that the policies and programmes have emphasized on increasing agriculture production and productivity and also on promoting organic farming. The government has tried to make the agriculture systematized and well-planned and it is projected that the entire agriculture sector would grow by 6 percent this year.
