{"id":2062,"date":"2020-01-30T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/30\/national-unity-amid-diversity-matter-of-pride:-vice-president-pun\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:18:00","slug":"national-unity-amid-diversity-matter-of-pride-vice-president-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/30\/national-unity-amid-diversity-matter-of-pride-vice-president-pun\/","title":{"rendered":"National unity amid diversity matter of pride: Vice President Pun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun has asserted that diversity in languages, cultures and traditions in Nepal is country&#8217;s prestige and pride.<\/p>\n<p>Inaugurating the Indigenous, Ethnic, Agriculture, Tourism and Trade Festival-2076 in Mahottari on Thursday, VP Pun asserted that such diversity would be found barely even in the financially powerful countries.<\/p>\n<p>The festival organized by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), District Coordination Council, Bardibas-14 in the district has 200 stalls displaying local agricultural and cultural produces reflecting various ethic communities&#8217; cultures and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the festival, Pun said,&quot; Our Nepali heart has high regard for everyone. We hail from hills, mountains and Terai. Our languages are different. So are our customs and costumes.&quot; He went on to say that Nepalis are known for possessing attributes such as integrity, honesty, gallantry and sense of responsibility across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that need of the hour is economic prosperity, he observed that various cultures, traditions, languages and customs are the common treasurers of the Nepalis and all three-tier government should preserve and promote them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We now have stable government after holding three-tier elections. We should move ahead for sustainable development,&quot; he underscored.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Minister for Education, Science and Technology Girirajmani Pokharel stressed the need for vocational and technical education its link to production and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, National Assembly Vice-President Shashikala Dahal, Province-2&#8217;s State-Minister for Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment Suresh Kumar Mandal and NEFIN&#8217;s Central President Jagat Baral expressed their confidence that the fair would help market the local products.<\/p>\n<p>The fair runs through 10 days during which famous artistes are also scheduled to perform in the side event, the organizers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun has asserted that diversity in languages, cultures and traditions in Nepal is country&#8217;s prestige and pride. Inaugurating the Indigenous, Ethnic, Agriculture,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[363,330],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mahottari","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}