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Govt. to ban extraction and export of natural resources

Kathmandu, 9 August: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government is to revert the erstwhile government’s decision to extract and export quarries from Chure region. Making public a common minimum programme of the ruling collation on Sunday, the government in its policy and programme announced to not allow exploitation of natural resources and means for profit-making.

The incumbent government has come up with a policy to put concrete interventions for the conservation of biodiversity and people’s environmental rights. It may be noted that the erstwhile government led by CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli in its budget for the fiscal year 2021/22 had announced to reduce trade deficit by exporting quarries.

People’s News Monitoring Service

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