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The CPN (Maoist Center) has sought suggestions from experts in the related field with the aim of instilling confidence to do something within the country.

Organizing an interaction with the theme of ‘Country’s economic development model and development program’ here, the Finance and Planning Department of the party has called for suggestions from experts in sectors including agriculture, tourism, energy, water resources, information technology, physical infrastructure, water resources, engineering and commerce for the government to improve the current economic situation of the country.

On the occasion, the party department chief and former Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun stressed the need for stopping the outflow of qualified manpower to foreign countries by creating job opportunities especially through industrialization at home. It is getting late to go for a policy to utilize the manpower within the home country.

Similarly, claiming that many plans of the previous five-year plans failed, Vice Chairperson of the National Planning Commission Min Bahadur Shrestha called for bringing quality in the new plan. High ambitious plans should not be included in the coming 16th Plan learning from past failure, he viewed.

A report involving the suggestions collected will be handed to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, said the department member and economist DP Dhakal.

CPN (Maoist Center) General Secretary Dev Gurung returned home from China on Thursday.

Gurung, who had left for the northern neighbor to arrange Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit, returned home by the Tibet Airlines flight today.

According to a source, Prime Minister Dahal sent him to China to discuss possible agendas of his China visit.

Gurung returned home after holding discussions with the leaders of the Chinese Community Party and diplomatic agencies.

Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said that Prime Minister Dahal will visit China after wrapping up his India visit. But at the last hour, the Prime Minister has decided to visit China after the US visit.

Prime Minister Dahal will leave for the US on September 16.

He will leave for New York to take part in the United Nations General Assembly on that day.

Prime Minister Dahal will leave for China on September 21 after addressing the United Nations General Assembly.

It has been learnt that Prime Minister Dahal will meet the President, Prime Minister and the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party during his China visit.

The Prime Minister has been saying that there will be a power trade agreement during the visit.

He said that an agreement has already been made to connect the cross border transmission line in Rasuwa-China border.

Maoist Vice-Chairman Agni Sapkota had left for China before Dev Gurung.

Tibet Military Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Major General Yue Ande called on Chief of Army Staff Prabhuram Sharma at the army headquarters in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

During the meeting, they discussed the matters of bilateral interest and mutual relations, the Public Relations and Information Department of the Army said.

The joint military drill being conducted between Nepal and Chinese People’s Liberation Army has also been also been affected due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

They also discuss resuming the same military exercise, a source said.

Leading an eight-member delegation, Major General Yue arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Brigadier General Sunil Shrestha and Major General Sagar Bahadur Thapa had welcomed them at the airport.

The Nepal Army said that the Chinese military officials will visit Army Command and Staff College and Military Museum among other tourist areas.

“The Nepal Army believes that this kind of visit will help in strengthening the relationship between the two countries and also help in promoting Nepal's tourism,” Nepal Army said in a statement issued today.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the social security scheme would be run as an intensive campaign by integrating it under the integrated concept for receiving the expected returns on the development of the economy.

Structures would be created for implementing the scheme in an integrated way for its sustenance and removing dual benefits while making many social security allowance schemes being based on contribution, he said while addressing the inaugural of the social security plan for workers and self-employed people in the informal sector at an event organized here by the Social Security Fund on Wednesday.

"The Fund is an important mechanism of the state for neglected, suppressed and oppressed people of the society. The mechanism has the ability of increasing entire production by making the internal production cycle active. On the other hand, hopes of workers are there in such a fund. The scheme helps in the context when workers in the informal sector have to work until their body allows and they have to retire empty-handed from the job."

The constitution cannot be fully implemented until workers' right to social security is implemented, he said.

Stating that Nepali migrant workers have been covered by the social security scheme, he assured of fully implementing the government's campaign to bring all workers under the scheme.

Stating that guaranteeing the rights of workers including social security was a mandatory condition for establishment of socialism-oriented political and economic system as envisaged by the constitution of Nepal, Prime Minister Dahal argued that social security was not a general concept.

"It would rather create an enabling environment for all citizens to avail education, healthcare services, employment, concession and rewards without discrimination," asserted Dahal.

Pressing for effective implementation of the 'Contribution-based Social Security Act-2074 BS' to make social security sustainable and organized, he pledged to mobilize regulatory agencies to oversee implementation of the Act keeping in view that no citizens are deprived of benefits of social security act.

Furthermore, he said efforts would be coordinated for registration of the establishment, renewal, taxation system, participation in procurement process among others to ensure that workers from formal sectors are affiliated with the Fund.

To enhance capacity of the Fund and to maintain its credibility and ownership, he also assured to rope in the government offices' workers working on the basis of contract and daily wages in the Fund.

He said that the government was serious towards enforcing the co-contribution of the State for the welfare of workers in the informal sector.

Similarly, Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Sharat Singh Bhandari articulated readiness of the government to revise and implement various plans unveiled by the Fund to contribute towards poverty reduction and increase attraction of the labor force in the labor market.

Likewise, Chief Secretary Dr Baikuntha Aryal suggested that the Fund should prepare to maintain record and manage the statistics of the Fund keeping in view the increasing number of its beneficiaries.

Joint Trade Union Labor Coordination Committee (JTUCC) President Binod Shrestha underscored practical implementation of labor rights issues provisioned in the constitution, law and policy.

Representatives from employer companies and international labor organizations were present in the program.