SURKHET, APRIL 21
Karnali Province government has administered both doses of vaccine against COVID-19 to 66 per cent eligible population above 18 years of age.
Making public the recent achievements of Karnali Province government at a press meet in Surkhet yesterday, Chief Minister Jeevan Bahadur Shahi said 54 per cent of the total population of the province received the first and second doses of vaccine against coronavirus while booster dose had been administered to 140,188 people.
Chief Minister Shahi said that preparations were being made to reduce the possible risk of coronavirus, saying coronavirus infection was on the rise in neighbouring India.
He said priority had been given for construction of health infrastructure and management of human resources.
"Arrangement of free treatment to the injured of conflict period was made and Rs 150 million was provided to the local levels in a bid to provide special allowance to martyrs' families and persons with disability," said Chief Minister Shahi. The chief minister said that the construction of province stadium, international standard volleyball covered hall, 81 playgrounds in all 10 districts of the province and 400 classrooms in all 79 local levels for physical infrastructure development of community schools were under way.
Similarly, 1,239 hectare land had got irrigation facility and production of potato, apple, kiwi and walnut had started on 1,205 hectare land in the current fiscal year, reads the press release issued by the Office of the Chief Minister.
A version of this article appears in the print on April 22, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
