Pokharel assumes office as school department chief; says preservation of public property becoming daunting challenge

Kathmandu / August 24: Senior Nepal Communist Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokharel has formally taken the responsibility of the party’s school department chief.

Former CPN-UML School Department Head Shankar Pokhrel handed over responsibility to Pokharel amid a special program at Lalitpur based Tulsilal Memorial Foundation.

After taking the oath of office, Pokharel committed to building leadership making the party stronger and well managed. “We’ll move further with a new mindset to create new leadership capable enough to deal with the changed context,” he reiterated.

He urged the whole party to have a common understanding and voices to the political direction for the sake of party unification and strengthening.

Pokharel was picked as the school department chief on August 16 by the party secretariat meeting amid the widening differences among the top leaders.

Preservation of public property becoming daunting challenge: DPM Pokharel

Acting Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwar Pokharel on Saturday said that the preservation of the public properties has become a daunting challenge in the present context.

Inaugurating a park constructed by Provincial 3 Government in Kathamandu, Minister Pokharel worried over the growing tendency of common people as well as party members to encroach upon public property. He, however, did not disclose the individuals involved in the encroachment of public properties.

He expressed his serious concerns over the growing attitude among people of having pride for misusing and transferring public property for private purposes. Speaking further, he also urged one and all to strive against the tendency as it is the duty of all citizens to protect and promote the public property.

Addressing the same event, Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan Bidhya Sundar Shakya said that metropolis has expedited the reconstruction of quake-hit cultural heritages. “I would like to request one and all to participate in this mega campaign of reconstruction,” Shakya added.