Newly appointed Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Uma Shankar Agariya has laid emphasis on the need of transforming Nepal Airlines Corporation into a profit-making organization by fully utilizing its aircrafts.
Minister Aragariya said that collective initiative was necessary to regain the Cooperation’s prestige of the past by utilizing human resources in an appropriate manner on the basis of capacity and efficiency.
At a welcome and discussion programme organized by the Corporation on Monday, he shared that the NAC should move ahead with a concept of becoming a service-oriented organization not only the profit-oriented one.
He expressed commitment that the government would provide the support for the same. Saying the NAC has fulfilled its responsibility competently even during corona virus pandemic, the Tourism Minister opined that it was necessary to make plan immediately to move ahead with a strong action plan.
Similarly, Secretary of the Ministry, Yadav Koirala, stressed that the NAC should move ahead towards the progress by changing it into a new model, saying the NAC could not be promoted in the traditional way.
Likewise, NAC’s General Manager, Dim Prakash Poudel, said that the NAC management and staffs have been involved to develop NAC into regional airlines company.
He also urged the government to give discount on revenue for ground handling service at the under-construction Bhairahawa and Pokhara regional airports for five years.
Source: National News Agency Nepal