KATHMANDU: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, has said the government will not take a break from the good-governance campaign.

Inaugurating the 33rd annual general meeting of Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) here today, he asserted that prosperity would be given an impetus only after establishing good governance.

He added that there is no alternative to pursuing the good-governance movement in an effective way in order to move ahead in the prosperity journey.

“The government will not abandon the good-governance campaign and it will not take rest,” DPM Shrestha said and pledged to make the campaign successful.

According to him, prosperity can be achieved quickly only after establishing good-governance and the government is vigorously working toward this goal.

“Good governance can be established only by controlling corruption, ending impunity, checking crime, stopping smuggling and black marketing and bringing to book the criminals involved in these acts,” the Home Minister said.

Claiming that even now efforts were afoot in an organized way to stop the campaign against corruption and for establishing good-governance initiated by the government, he vowed that the government will in no way digress for the good-governance campaign.

Deputy Prime Minister Shrestha stressed on the need for the political parties to forge consensus on issues of national importance.

He stated that the government would prioritize the development of the tourism as an important industry for driving ahead the prosperity campaign.

Noting that the upcoming 16th five-year plan formulation is in the initial process, he assured that the tourism sector would be incorporated in the periodic plan as the basis for prosperity.