Tourism Department to ensure IT-friendly service delivery
The Department of Tourism has worked to ensure a well-managed and technology-friendly service delivery.
The Department has prioritized procedural simplification, system reforms and technological regulations in its work execution.
As stated in a recently published annual report of the Department, it has set goals for a business-friendly tourism governance while establishing this sector as an investment-friendly entity and technology-friendly.
The international practices would be integrated into the national system while prioritizing and expanding the tourism activities.
Director General of the Department, Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, said that efforts were initiated to make the Department's performance simplified, accessible and business-friendly.
He added that policy-level reforms were also on the cards.
Dr Regmi was of the view that enhanced activities in the tourism sector would contribute to the creation of employment and self-employment while resulting in quality tourism and a better hospitality industry.
Development of tourist infrastructures, quality hospitality service management, promotion of adventure and mountaineering tourism, and management of mountaineering are also being advanced with additional planning, Dr Regmi added.
11 injured in Darchula jeep accident
At least 11 people were injured when a jeep they were travelling in met with an accident in Darchula on Thursday.
The four-wheeler (Sudurpaschim Province 04001 Ja 0103) was en route to Hoparigad from Hopari in Naugad Rural Municipality when the incident occurred this morning.
According to the District Police Office, Darchula, four of the injured are in critical condition.
The severely injured have been identified as Parbati Tamata (25), Mohan Thagunna (26), Apsara Mahata (18), and Umesh Thagunna (35).
All the injured have been taken to Gokuleshwor for treatment.
Police Inspector and Information Officer Chhatra Bahadur Rawat said that the accident occurred due to a brake failure.
Further investigation into the incident is underway, said police.
Federal court issues order in favor of Trump administration regarding TPS, 7, 000 Nepalis returning home
A US federal court has issued an order in favor of President Donald Trump administration pertaining to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of immigrants.
With this order, the deck has been cleared for the Trump administration to remove 7, 000 Nepalis by ending their TPS status.
In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal. Immigrant rights advocates allege that the administration acted unlawfully in ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, Aljazeera reported.
This decision means that the Republican administration can move towards removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose TPS designations expired on August 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire September 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal.
Private schools’ teachers stage protest in Kathmandu (With photos)
Teachers and principals of private schools have launched a protest in Kathmandu on Thursday after the Education, Health and Technology Committee of the Parliament attempted to endorse the School Education Bill.
They started the protest in Maitighar Mandala, Kathmandu from today arguing that their demands be included in the Bill.
The Committee’s meeting is being held today.
The teachers and principals of the private schools have warned of intensifying the protest by closing the schools from August 25 if their demands are not met.
They announced a phase wise protest saying that the government turned a blind eye to their demands.
The principals staged a protest in Maitighar on Thursday by carrying banners.
The teachers and principals said that they would hold a rally in Kathmandu and picket the Education Committee and Parliament on August 22. They further said that the school buses across the country would pass through various part of the city with black flags the same day.
Issuing a statement, the four umbrella organizations of the private schools—PABSON, NPABSON, HISAN, and APAN—warned of staging the protest if the five points in the report that contradict their demands are not removed.
