Nepalgunj, Mar. 9: Minister for Local Development and Chairman of the B. P. with the Poor Programme Chiranjivi Wagle has said the Nepali society can benefit a lot from the programme brought about with the aim of ameliorating the condition of poor people if we advance it with firm determination.

Mr Wagle made this remark while inaugurating a two-day introductory seminar for programme coordinators and chairmen of the district coordination and monitoring committees organized by the programme’s central committee secretariate at Pipari of Kohalpur VDC in Banke district today.

The programme is tailored to the objective of fulfilling the dreams of the late B. P. Koirala and aspirations of those who laid down their lives for democracy, the minister said, adding the programme also aims at exposing terrorist activities being carried out in the name of the Maoists by raising public awareness.

Success of the programme hinges on the initiation, loyalty and hard working of the officials and members of the committee, he added.

Vice chairman of the B. P. with the Poor Programme Haribol Bhattarai noted the programme has pursued the principles of the late Koirala.

Various other speakers including central coordinator Dr Ram Prasad Sharma and DDC Banke chairman Omprakash Jung Rana also expressed their views at the function chaired by programme’s Banke district chairman Maya Giri.

A total of 50 persons had taken part in the seminar.