KATHMANDU: A new association automobile entrepreneurs in the country, Nepal Automobile Importers and Manufacturers Association (NAIMA), has been formally announced.

The NAIMA was formally launched today with the slogan of ‘Empowering Development through Mobility’. Ritu Singh Baidya is the first president of NAIMA and the first woman to hold this position in the automotive sector of Nepal.

Chair Baidya mentioned that NAIMA will work as an integrated platform to represent the collective voice of Nepal’s mobility sector at the national and international levels, for strategic collaboration, development and advocacy.

The founding executive committee members of NAIMA are Suhridaraj Ghimire, Shekhar Golchha, Cabinet Shrestha, Saurabh Jyoti, Sandeep Kumar Sharda, Nirakar Shrestha, Yamuna Shrestha, Nikunj Agrawal, Hemant Golchha and Udayan Kabra.

Also, the Nepal Mobility Expo, to be organized by NAIMA in August was formally announced at the event. NAIMA Auto Show Committee member Gaurav Sharda made public the logo and program of the expo.