Tansen, April, 8 :An introductory programme on the Bisheshwar with the Poor was held here recently under the auspices of its coordination and monitoring committee, Palpa.

Central vice-chairman of the programme Hairbol Bhattarai, inaugurating the programme, said that the programme was introduced in confirmity with the popular leader B.P. Koirala’s pledge to raise the economic and social status of the poor people.

Central programme coordinator Dr. Ram Prasad Gyawali observed that this programme, targeted as it was to elevate without any prejudices the living standard of about 17 per cent of the country’s population living in abject poverty, would be an effective one.

Protesting against the programme at the very outset would be against the democratic norms, he noted. Various speakers including Nepali Congress Palpa district committee chairman Rajan Pant and Tansen Municipality mayor Ashok Shahi shed light on the programme.