Lalitpur, March 25:

The Nepal Engineers’ Association (NEA) will organise its 10th national convention and the fourth Engineering and Development Expo - 2007 with the theme ‘Building New Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities to Engineers’, from April 11- 13 in Kathmandu.

Saroj Devkota, president of NEA, said the convention would extensively discuss on developmental issues.

“Engineers are 50 per cent responsible for the nation’s development and the convention will further bring out the vision document of the NEA on Nepal’s development,” he said, adding that it will be the biggest meet of engineers in Nepal.

The organisers, at a press meet today, said they expect more than 2,000 national and international participants at the convention, who would discuss the role of engineers in building a New Nepal.

The three-day convention will have technical sessions, keynote deliberations from speakers of international fame and various other programmes.

The themes of the discussions will be agriculture, engineering, appropriate technology, architecture and conservation, conflict management, development and planning, energy, education, hydropower and other related developmental issues.

Saligram Singh, convener of the expo, said the exhibition would be an integrated platform of the engineering profession.

It will have more than 150 stalls from engineering industries, engineering trading and business houses, engineering academic institutions, development projects in public and private sectors and other related organisations.