Visiting delegates of NCC call on PM Oli

Kathmandu / Feb 24: The National Cadet Corps (NCC) team from India, Bhutan and the Maldives paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at the latter’s official residence in Baluwatar today.

The team is in Nepal to participate in the Youth Exchange Programme 2025.

The youth exchange programme is being held in Kathmandu on the occasion of Mahashivaratri and the 262nd anniversary of the establishment of the Nepali Army.

On the occasion, Prime Minister Oli said that through the youth exchange programme, the Nepali Army is creating a golden opportunity to strengthen mutual relations with the forces of friendly countries as well as to exchange skills, culture and traditions among the cadets.

He expressed confidence that such programmes would create greater understanding and appreciation of social, economic and cultural realities, so as to spread the message that the whole world is one community based on mutual relations and harmony.

Prime Minister Oli wished the participants be inspired through this platform to become energetic, dignified and dynamic youth of the future as the process of learning by studying, observing and experiencing the realities of life will continue.

Under the programme, the youth of different countries are brought together to transform them into trustworthy, disciplined, responsible, effective leaders of the future and good citizens. The NCC has been developing and promoting qualities like nationalism, patriotism, leadership, self-confidence and service to the nation among the youth.

The 34-member team arrived in Nepal at the invitation of the Nepal Army. The meeting was attended by the Executive Director General of Nepal’s National Service Corps Yam Prasad Dhakal, Director General of India’s NCC Gurvir Pal Singh, Director of Bhutan Scout Association Sangay Choden, Head of the Maldivian delegation Rifan Ali, among others. RSS