The Pokhara Metropolitan City and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on Thursday signed a mutual cooperation project on job creation through Recycle Upcycle (RU) enterprises.
Mayor of Pokhara Dhan Raj Acharya and Deputy Chief KOICA Young-Hyun Lee signed the deal in Pokhara.
Prior to this, Pokhara and KOICA had signed the preliminary draft on the project.
The project is aimed at green job creation through recycling and upcycling in Pokhara Metropolitan City.
The project is expected to create RU enterprises and create green jobs in the city of Pokhara. From the project, capacity enhancement of the officials of the Metropolitan City, government stakeholders and RU enterprises would be carried out and create green employment.
Likewise, Green Venture Zone (GVZ) would be established and business equation assistance would be extended to the new RU enterprises.
The project activities will lead to behavioral change at the community level, where people will adopt waste segregation at household level. This will reduce the burden of Pokhara’s waste dumping site.
Similarly, Pokhara Metropolitan City will provide 5,090 square metres of area at Basundhara Park in Pokhara for the establishment of GVZ.
At the event, Mayor of Pokhara Dhan Raj Acharya said that waste management is a challenging job and the GVZ is being established to convert waste into assets. The project would link the youth to the employment and the waste would generate income, according to Acharya.
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