Tribhuwannagar, Apr. 19: Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives and Nepali Congress central member and chief of the organisation department Baldev Sharma Majgaiya has said that the Ministry of Cooperatives has been created with a view to expedite the agricultural sector on a long term basis.

Mr Majgaiya said this at an interaction programme organised here today by the Nepal Press Union (NPU) Dang Unit.

He noted that the Prime Minister has laid priority on three issues of national concern, law and order, good governance and corruption control, and the present government would move ahead on this basis.

He said that a mechanism would be introduced to control corruption as early as possible and the government is working on a legal basis since corruption cannot be wiped out merely accusing someone if the pertinent laws are not there.

In reply to a query, he said that a survey team would be deputed soon to set up a milk chilling centre in Dang.

Shortage of fertiliser will not surface this year, and the government will monitor the price and quality of fertilisers imported by the private sector, he said.

There will be no obstruction from the present government in the dialogue with the Maoists, he cleared.

Npu Dang unit chairman Ram Prasad Poudel gave the welcome address at the function.