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UML unveils 20
yr vision for New Nepal
Kantipur Report
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.