Birgunj metropolis stresses on disaster mgmt, infrastructure development, good governance
BIRGUNJ (Parsa): The Birgunj Metropolitan City has laid emphasis on infrastructure development, forests and environment, disaster management, economic development, social development and good governance in its policies and programmes for coming fiscal year 2026/27.
Presenting the policies and programmes in the 20th municipal assembly of the metropolitan city today, acting Mayor Imtiyaz Alam shared that a target has been set to transform Birgunj metropolis into a place with good-governance, citizen-centric service system, green and sustainable urban infrastructure, entrepreneurship, centre of investment and economic hub creating opportunities.
The policies and programmes have put forth various programmes including localization of sustainable development goals, modern and quality urban infrastructure development, safe and systematic settlement development, quality enhancement of education and health services, agriculture and enterprises development, investment and tourism promotion, good governance, environment conservation, disaster management, social security and inclusive development as top priorities.
Special emphasis has also been given to internal income growth of metropolitan city, improvement in service delivery through procedural restructuring, technology-friendly administration, development management based on citizen partnership and transparency of public resources.
Acting Mayor Alam mentioned, “Productive agriculture system based on modern technology will be adopted for modernization, classification and commercialization of agriculture sector. He arrangement of providing wheat seeds to farmers at 50 per cent subsidy will be continued to increase productivity of wheat.”
Coordination, collaboration, monitoring and evaluation activities would be continuously accelerated to make student enrollment rate cent percent in the metropolis area.
