KATHMANDU, Feb 22 - CPN-UML on Friday unveiled a 20-year
Vision Nepal plan for a new Nepal.
The 20-year plan for a new Nepal aims at eliminating unemployment and
poverty, increasing the per capital income to US $ 1000, providing electricity
to every citizen.
The vision also includes transforming the economic and social sectors to take
Nepal to the mid development phase of a new industrial nation, developing Nepal
as the top Asian tourist spot, free education till secondary school for all
female students, providing relief and shelter to the backward and destitute.
It also unveiled plans to end illiteracy in five years, providing clean
drinking water to all people, constructing a major highway connecting east and
west across the hilly region and the establishment of an electric railway
network in the Terai in ten years.
The Vision Nepal also states to increase the average life expectancy to 70
and economic growth rate to 8 percent.
The party also stated plans to provide social protection to disabled and
older people and setting up an international airport outside Kathmandu valley.
UM General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal informed that the party formulated
Vision Nepal since a clear policy was needed to make a new Nepal.
The UML leaders have said that they were ready to openly present themselves
to garner public support for the development of the country and in regard to the
plans.
Standing committee member Bharat Mohan Adhikari heads the committee
comprising over 300 experts from various fields to formulate Vision Nepal, the
party informed.
