A joint committee that was formed for minimizing the industrial problems went District Administration Office (DAO) and submitted seven-point- demand to Nepal government through the DAO, Morang. [break]
The group organized an hour long sit-in protest at the office. Industrialist and Lawmaker Moti Dugad led the team.
They have demands to continue the cabinet decision to cancel demand fee, to supply the power supplied from Kataiya of India only in the east to the Koshi, to run the multi-fuel in full capacity based in Biratnagar and Bansbari and supply the power in Morang and Sunsari districts including others.
Earlier to this, the entrepreneurs submitted memorandum to Prime Minister (PM) Madhav Kumar Nepal through CDO on January 29 and held discussion with the PM. However, they got no solution to their demands over their problems, the entrepreneurs said.
Including big and small industries, around 500 industries have been affected due to power cut in the districts.
The entrepreneurs demanded to address their demands until March 2 otherwise, they warned, they would launch their second phase of protest programmes that would be effective from March 3.
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