Kathmandu, Feb. 11: Member of the National Planning Commission (Npc) Dr. Jagadish Chandra Pokharel has said that the government should seriously take into consideration the wishes of the people in general while formulating any project.

Dr. Pokharel made this remark while inaugurating the four-day project management training organised by the School of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (schems) and Canadian Center of Environmental studies and Cooperation (CICE) here today.

Convenor of the training Raghav Raj Regmi said that training on project, programme and evaluation would be organised for the officials of governmental, non-governmental and other sectors.

Speaking from the chair executive director of Schems Professor Santa Bahadur Gurung  said that schems had been organising training programmes with the objective of making the private sector extend cooperation to the government in development works.

Schems dean Dr. Ram Bahadur Khadka and the representative of CECI Francois Vitej also expressed their views. Fourteen officials of the governmental and non-governmental organisations and other sectors are taking part in the training.