Kathmandu, March 30: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma said cooperation from all developed countries was imperative for materializing Nepal’s efforts to graduate to a developing and developed country.

In her address to the annual programme of Japanese Universities Alumni Association Nepal (JUAAN) and the closing of Golden Jubilee ceremony in the capital on Saturday, Minister Sharma, also the spokesperson of the government, said Nepal should put extra efforts to graduate to the status of developed country.
“We will now take ahead the journey of prosperity by optimally mobilizing the resources and using latest technology and innovations”, Minister Sharma said, “Since our friendly neighbour is being established as a developed country, we are still in the list of developing countries. The status should not last longer”.
Minister Sharma mentioned that the members of JUAAN were substantially contributing to Nepal’s health, education, engineering, policy making and other fields.
“I urge JUAAN to initiate discussion how Nepal should learn from Japanese experience. The government expects JUAAN’s concrete contributions to the country’s prosperity”, Minister Sharma said.

Mentioning that most of the Nepali youths going abroad for studies were paying more attention to work than studies, she asked the students to lay emphasis on study along with jobs. “There are complaints over the rising trend of giving importance to works. It needs to be discouraged. It is necessary to encourage those going abroad for higher education to contribute to the country after completing studies over there. I am confident that JUAAN can play important role for this”, Minister Sharma noted.
Minister Sharma expressed her happiness that JUAAN has been actively working for the past 50 years and wished for further success in coming days.
Minister Sharma took the opportunity to share that it has been almost 122 years since Nepali students have been to Japan for higher education.