Butwal, 27 Aug : Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said development of clean and beautiful city could ensure well managed urbanization.
He argued Nepal was facing various sorts of disasters due to not having well planned and managed cities. PM Deuba was saying it amidst a programme organized to inaugurate an international conference centre built at Butwal Mandap of Butwal Submetropolis-10 today.
Time has come for us to rebuild the old cities and manage the news ones. He mentioned that Butwal was making headway to urban development and believed that the establishment of the international conference centre would help promote socioeconomic and educational development. Government would set criteria for running the centre soon, he informed. The PM further reminded that with the federalism in place, the construction of development infrastructures was gaining pace at the local and provincial levels, which he hoped, would augment urbanization drive.
He said, “Uncontrolled migration will be curbed if the modern urban development was reached to people’s settlements in rural areas.”