Kathmandu, May 1

The Baburam Bhattarai-led Naya Shakti Party-Nepal today unveiled its commitment paper for local polls committing to increase Nepalis’ per capita income to $ 2000 in five years.

The party also seeks to achieve double digit economic growth at least for two decades and to reduce the percentage of below the poverty line population to 10 per cent.

NSP-N commited to achieve the following objectives in five years

• Three lakh employment to be generated annually
• Food-nutrition security to be guaranteed
• Percentage of high school going children to be increased to 80 per cent
• Free health service to children below 15 years of age and elder citizens above 65 years of age
• All households to have access to drinking water and electricity
• Government to bring into operation two north and south economic corridors

Wages of those who work in commercial agriculture farms to be fixed, to also get gratuity

Employer to put 10 per cent of their net income and the government to also contribute the same percentage for this scheme.

Twenty industrial sectors including two in each province to be developed. Twenty places to be developed as tourist destinations on the basis of private-public partnership model.

Twenty per cent of annual budget to be spent on education

Government to bear all expenditure of students for up to higher secondary education.

Government to open two 500-bed hospitals and to establish Mithila University and Muslim University

Every province to have one institute of technology

Five helicopters to be used to ferry emergency patients from Karnali and other remote areas

At least 100 days’ job for youths or employment allowance worth 100 days’ work.

Women suffering from breast cancer and uterine prolapse to be given free treatment

Multiple language policy to be adopted Party-wise trade unions to be banned in government offices

Priority to be given to earthquake affected families in government jobs

Ten smart cities and 25 smart village municipalities to be developed in five years

The party’s slogan is: Samridhi sambhav chha hamrai palama. Arule garchhan kura hami garchhaun pura  (prosperity is possible in our life time. Others give slogans but we translate slogans into reality)

NSP-N has also  commited to increase the per capita income to  $6000 in 15 years.

The party also said that there was need to amend the constitution to ensure the rights of Madhesi, Tharu, indigenous nationalities, Muslims and religious minorities, women, Dalit and other marginalised groups.

The NSP-N said that the old political parties which made laws to bar new political parties from contesting elections with their election symbols were not truly dedicated to democracy. The party stated in its election manifesto that using the election symbol Mashal (torch), which is a party symbol of Upendra Yadav-led Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, was both a necessity and compulsion. The party said that the political game that the forces played in the appointment of Inspector General of Nepal Police indicated that the state was a victim of factionalism and mafiaisation.

NSP-N also said that appointment of political cadres as judges had ended the dignity, neutrality and credibility of the judiciary. It said Nepali Congress opposed all the agenda of change and now it was unable to take decisions.

The party called CPN-UML a social fascist party which was deepening the rift between the hills and the plains. It also said that the CPN-MC was acting like a counter revolution force. The NSP-N said Rastriya Prajatantra Party was a rightist party which wanted to protect its regressive agendas by creating rift between the ruling parties.

“Regional parties have failed to carry the agenda of the nation,” the NSP-N added. The party pledges to make democracy inclusive in all levels besides committing to practice direct and participatory democracy.