The cabinet meeting, Wednesday, decided to change the name of three municipalities, which were earlier named after former Kings.

As such, the Prithvi Narayan municipality has become Gorkha municipality, Tribhuwan municipality of Dang district has become Ghorahi municipality and Mahendra Nagar municipality of Kanchanpur district has become Bhim Dutta municipality.

The cabinet decided to appoint Uttar Kumar Shrestha as the general manager of Nepal Electricity Authority while Sugat Ratna Kansakar has been named as managing director of Nepal Airlines Corporation.

The government has also picked six members for the National Planning Commission including Yogendra Yadav, Ram Mani Pokharel, Sunil Babu Shrestha, Ayo Devi Yami, Prem Kunwar, and Ram Dev Singh.

The cabinet also decided to promote Bimala Thapa and Parbati Thapa as Deputy Inspector Generals of Police. nepalnews.com sd Nov 05 08