KATHMANDU: The government has released ‘National Water Resources Policy-2077’ with a long-term thought for making multi-dynamic, equitable, and sustainable development of water resources and making economic prosperity and social transformation from its multipurpose.
Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Barshaman Pun, said that the policy was released after around four year’s hard work and common initiative of the concerned people, groups, and bodies.
The policy has set a target to contribute to economic prosperity and social transformation by protecting, promoting, and multipurpose the development of water resources.
Contributing in the growth of the national production, conservation, development, and management of water resources areas by equitable development and use of water resources is the objective of the policy.
Similarly, the water resources area would be developed by distributing water resources-related services in an easy and equitable manner for the fulfillment of people’s necessities, to conserve, development and use of water resources at coordination of federation, provinces, and local levels.
The policy has the objective of developing and using the water resources, lessening water-induced disasters,s and minimizing losses by lessening negative impacts on the economic, social, and environmental side.
The policy has determined 11 strategies. It has the policy to carry out study and research in the water resources sector, capacity building of concerned organization, and human resources.
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