INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 22Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha
Sharma, has underlined the need of collective efforts to conclude the ongoing peace process.
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Speaking at a programme organised by
the Padmaratna Lumanti Guthi at Shakhandhar Park Centre on the occasion of national luminary Shankhadhar Sakhwa today, the Minister claimed
that the peace process would have already concluded until now if Tuladhar was alive.According to the Minister, she realised that Shankhadhar
Sakhwa was always for change in the society.
She took time to say that the Council of Ministers decided to endorse the
Nepal Sambat initiated in recognition of philanthropist Sakhwa as the official calendar
"Republic is a must for multi-linguistic, multi-religious and multi-cultural identities"Kathmandu metropolis deputy mayor Sunita Dangol said
the local government is committed to protecting and promoting Nepal Bhasha, the language of indigenous Newar community in the Kathmandu
Valley, and has introduced it in the primary school curriculum.It is believed that philanthropist and Kathmandu-based trader Shankhadhar
Sakhwa liberated the people of the then Kantipur region from debts and provided them freedom.The Nepal Sambat was initiated in 936 BS in
commemoration of the same philanthropic action of Sakhwa, it is said.
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