Gandaki province to build IT Park in Pokhara

Published On: March 6, 2019 09:17 AM NPT By: SANDESH SHRESTHA


POKHARA, March 6: Gandaki Province has announced to build an Information and Technology (IT) Park in Pokhara. 

The provincial government has selected Gyarjati in Pokhara Metropolitan City-8 as the proposed site for the ‘dream project’. The provincial government unveiled plan to build an IT Park at a time when similar IT Park built by the federal government in Kavre has remained largely unutilized.

Gandaki Province has allocated Rs 7.5 million for the construction of IT Park in the current Fiscal Year 2018/19. Apart from writing to the federal government and the Department of Survey, not progress has been made in this direction.

The IT Park will have a data center to store data of the provincial government, all government offices as well as local units in the province, according to Suman Bhattarai, a section officer. “It will be similar to the back-up data center being built by the federal government in Hetauda,” Bhattarai added.

Among others, the IT Park will have innovation and invention center with all required facilities. It will have round the clock electricity service and high-speed Internet facilities, among others.

The provincial government has proposed to use 100 ropani of land owned by Ratna Primary School. The land is lying useless as the primary school has already been merged with another school due to lack of students.

“We have already completed preliminary study of the proposed site. Detailed study will follow soon,” Bhattarai said, adding that work to prepare Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the IT Park will begin once the provincial government gets go-ahead from the federal government.

As it takes at least three to four years to complete construction and other works, the provincial government intends to develop it as a multiyear project. It aims to prepare the DPR and master plan for the project within current fiscal year. 

“Information technology is the need of the hour. We cannot imagine life without it,” Bhattarai said, adding: “So we need to promote to make information technology easily accessible to people.”

Further, the provincial government also aims to attract foreign direct investment in the province by building IT Park.


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