POKHARA: Minister for Industry, Tourism and Environment for Province 4, Bikash Lamsal, said the students must engage themselves in research-based work.

At a programme held by Forest Science Research Association's Free Student Union here, Minister Lamsal stressed on the need to find nation's prosperity through the bio-diversity found in forests and wildlife.

Noting the importance of capable human resources for maximum utilisation of natural resources for country's development and transformation, the Minister called on the students for mandatory commitment to productive works.