Kathmandu, May 6
The main opposition party, Nepali Congress, has formed a special committee to probe and analyse the effects of coronavirus outbreak in different areas of Nepal’s economy.
The decision to form the committee was made in a meeting of the party’s central working committee led by the party president Sher Bahadur Deuba on April 29.
The party’s leader and former finance minister Ram Sharan Mahat heads the committee. It has 14 members including Mahesh Acharya, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Narayan Khadka, Minendra Rijal, and Chinkaji Shrestha among others.
The committee will prepare suggestions regarding the relief packages and priorities in the budget for the next fiscal year as well as analyse the long-term effects of the Covid-19 in the Nepali economy.
