Representatives of 35 countries, including the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, are coming to Nepal

On behalf of UNDP, Resident Representative for Nepal Ayshani Medagangoda Labe informed about the visit during a courtesy meeting with Finance Minister Varshman Pun on Monday.

They are going to come to Kathmandu for the meeting of the Asia Pacific region of UNDP. Kanni Vignaraja, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Regional Director for the Asia Pacific Region of UNDP, will also come to Nepal for the meeting. During that, it is said that Vignaraja will have a courtesy meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Finance Minister Barshman Pun and Energy Minister Shakti Bahadur Basnet.

Similarly, the team with Vignaraja will visit the Solukhumbu region. There is a program to inspect Imja Lake. The UNDP reduced the risk in view of the possibility of the Himalaya glacier bursting. In order to protect the settlements in the lower part of the lake, UNDP increased the depth of the lake by taking out the frozen snow. Similarly, UNDP also reduced the risk of the eruption of Chhorolpa, Nepal's largest glacier in the Rolwaling Valley in the northern region of Dolakha. Labe said that there is a plan to reduce the risk of three lakes in the Sunkoshi basin and one in the Gandaki basin among those that are at risk. In the

meeting, Labe reminded about the work that UNDP is doing in Nepal's poverty alleviation and health sector and informed that the program of 'Global Green Climate Fund' is going to be implemented in Nepal.