MARICH MAN SINGH

SIX JOINT SECRETARIES PROMOTED TO POST OF

SECRETARIES; MARICH MAN SINGH SHESTHA GETS RS.500,000

GOVT. ASSITANCE FOR TREATMENT

Kathmandu, 21 July Government Sunday promoted Joint Secretaries Arjun Bahadur Thapa, Raj Kumar Malla, Lok Darshan Regmi, Shanker Adhikary, Naindrau Updadhyaya and Sriranjan Lakaul to pst of secretaries. Thapa is likely to be appointed foreign secretary. Adhikary has been appointed eastern regional administrator while Malla has been appointed as far-western regional administrator, Lakaul is central regional administrator and Regmi western regional administrator. The cabinet decided to provide Rs. 5 lakhs each for the medical treatment of former Prime Minister Marichman Singh Shrestha, senior Congress leader Chakra Prasad Bastola, Singer Dharma Raj Thapa, and Arvinda Thakur, who have been receiving treatment after having chronic diseases. Sushil Koirala has been nomonated  general manager of Gorkhapatra Corporation and Dr. Shivahari Shrestha general manager of Nepal Food Corporation.

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