KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 21
The government has proposed India's yoga guru Ramdev as tourism ambassador.
Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Bahadur Ale has urged the Yoga Guru to become the tourism goodwill ambassador of Nepal.
Addressing a yoga camp organised by the ministry at Hansamandap in Pashupatinath area today, Minister Ale requested Yoga Guru Ramdev to be Nepal's goodwill tourism ambassador.
In response, Yoga Guru Ramdev said Nepal was an unmatched tourism destination throughout the world and it was a matter of pride for him to become the tourism ambassador.
"I will formally accept the Government of Nepal's request to become a tourism ambassador at an appropriate time. It is a matter of dignity to become a goodwill ambassador," he added. Minister Ale felicitated Yoga Guru Ramdev and Acharya Balakrishna on behalf the ministry.
Former Minister of State of Finance Lhyarkyal Lama, founding president of NRNA Upendra Mahato, office-bearers of Pashupati Area Development Trust, the ministry's high officials and hundreds of yoga practitioners were present in the yoga camp. Immediately after the yoga camp, Yoga Guru Ramdev and Acharya Balakrishna left for New Delhi, India, on a regular flight of Nepal Airlines.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 22, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
