POKHARA, March 6 -- Gandaki Province has announced to build an Information and Technology (IT) Park in Pokhara.

The provincial government has selected Gyarjati in Pokhara Metropolitan City-8 as the proposed site for the 'dream project'. The provincial government unveiled plan to build an IT Park at a time when similar IT Park built by the federal government in Kavre has remained largely unutilized.

Gandaki Province has allocated Rs 7.5 million for the construction of IT Park in the current Fiscal Year 2018/19. Apart from writing to the federal government and the Department of Survey, not progress has been made in this direction.

The IT Park will have a data center to store data of the provincial government, all government offices as well...