KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development Minister Prakash Man Singh and the high officials of the World Bank (WB) held a meeting at the Ministry of Urban Development in Singha Durbar on Monday. 

On the occasion, discussions were held on Nepal Urban Governance and Infrastructure Project run under the ministry in collaboration with the WB. 

Deputy Prime Minister Singh urged the World Bank to collaborate with the ministry for urban development in the Kathmandu Valley. "Let the World Bank work on any project in the Kathmandu Valley also this time. Working in the Valley will send a message across the country," he added.

DPM Singh stressed partnership in managing the Valley's rivers, developing the Valley as a cultural city and in areas of climate change and infrastructure development. 

World Bank's Operations Manager for the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, Preeti Arora, said that the WB is positive about the DPM's proposal to work on a new project in the Kathmandu Valley.

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