Kathmandu, Jan. 31: Commerce Minister Ramkrishna Tamrakar released ‘Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) Trade Directory Millennium 2000’ amid a function here today.

The directory provides Nepal’s business and industrial information and is useful to those willing to invest in the country, said the organising NCC sources. “The directory includes the government policy on industry, commerce, foreign inves.iment and technology transfer, labour, civil aviation, water resources, tourism and regional as well as global trade.”

The directory also provides brief information of Nepal’s export-import companies, commercial details of various industries, banks, financial institutions, airlines, and diplomatic missions, they said.

Commending NCC for publishing such an informative trade directory that would attract foreign investors in the country, Minister Tamrakar said that modern information system plays an important role in national development as it promotes various economic activities.

He advised NCC to move further with its activities that would support national development and asked them to set up an information division with modern technology to provide Nepal’s business and industrial information to national as well as foreign investors.

NCC President Mahesh Kumar Agrawal while welcoming the guests and participants said that they had created a web site to provide Nepal’s industrial and business information globally.

He appealed the minister to take initiatives to end the existing conflict in the exchange of Indian currency that “has severly affected Nepal’s trade and tourism.”