{"id":312689,"date":"2026-08-26T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=312689"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:05:05","slug":"finance-minister-wagle-urges-it-entrepreneurs-to-increase-investment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/finance-minister-wagle-urges-it-entrepreneurs-to-increase-investment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Wagle urges IT entrepreneurs to increase investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Finance Minister Dr. KATHMANDU: Swarnim Wagle has urged young entrepreneurs working in the information technology sector to increase investment in the country without any fear. During a discussion with young IT entrepreneurs working in the IT sector at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday, Minister Khatiwada said that the IT sector was in the government&#8217;s special priority. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The information technology sector is an area that can take a big leap in a short time, you young entrepreneurs increase investment. Spread yourself,&#8221; he said, adding that the government is with you. Explain what needs to be done. Recalling that Nepal had invested a lot of time in the production and export of agricultural products in the past, he said that there was a sector in which profit could be obtained in less time even by investing in the information technology sector. <\/p>\n<p>He said that the government has given special priority to the information technology sector in this year&#8217;s budget, allocated budget for the development of AI and has adopted a policy of encouraging young entrepreneurs working in the IT sector. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell me what you mean. May your field flourish. Youths should not be forced to go abroad. What is the situation now? Tell me what the government should do,&#8221; Wagle told young entrepreneurs in the IT sector. <\/p>\n<p>He also informed that the government has been taking initiatives to bring the world-class companies of information technology to Nepal. He also said that the government is planning to develop Nepal as a value chain hub of information technology. <\/p>\n<p>He urged the youth entrepreneurs to keep their problems open and move ahead by developing the sector by removing the shortcomings that come up in course of work. <\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen young IT entrepreneurs took part in the discussion thanked the government for giving priority to the IT sector. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Finance Minister Dr. KATHMANDU: Swarnim Wagle has urged young entrepreneurs working in the information technology sector to increase investment in the country without any fear. During a discussion with young IT entrepreneurs working in the IT sector at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday, Minister Khatiwada said that the IT sector was in the government&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":312687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312690,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312689\/revisions\/312690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/312687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}