Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: Embassy of India, Kathmandu, in collaboration with Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) organized ‘India-Nepal Development Partnership Conclave’ in Kathmandu on Monday.
The event was organized to mark 75 years of India’s Independence as well as 75 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and India.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Prabhat Kumar, OSD (Economic Relations and Development Partnership Administration), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Naveen Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Nepal, jointly inaugurated the conclave.
On the occasion, 48 post-earthquake reconstruction projects in health and education sectors spread across various earthquake-affected districts of Nepal were inaugurated virtually.
Speaking at the program, Deputy Prime Minister Shrestha recalled the long-standing development cooperation between India and Nepal. He noted that there is a tremendous potential for further strengthening this development cooperation in the future.
Similarly, Chief Secretary, GoN, Shanker Das Bairagi identified hydro-power export, renewal energy, railway links, modernization of agriculture, religious-cultural ties and capacity building as the prospects of future cooperation. He also highlighted that timely completion and proper utilization of created infrastructure are the key elements for project implementation in development cooperation.
Other speakers in highlighted the enormous potential of digital public goods, financial connectivity, good governance, energy security and value addition in manufacturing supply chains as some of the key avenues for future development cooperation between India and Nepal.
Nepal-India Development Cooperation that began in 1951 has continued and expanded for over the past seven decades, and is today very robust, multi-faceted and multi-sectoral, the embassy said in a statement.
