KATHMANDU, July 22: Nepali Congress (NC) President Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that Green Run Competition was organized to make a commitment on climate change awareness.
Addressing the Green Run Competition organized by the NC on Wednesday to mark the BP Koirala Memorial Day, President Thapa said the first people-elected Prime Minister Koirala introduced the idea of protecting and nationalizing the national resources like forest and land.
President Thapa said the NC has renewed its commitment to do justice to the concept of sustainable development and natural resources.
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The NC is fully committed to the concept of inclusiveness that the NC founding leader BP Koirala translated seven decades ago, according to Thapa.
On the occasion, President Thapa prized the winner of the Green Run Competition. In the competition, Mukesh Bahadur Pal emerged first and won Rs 50,000 in cash while Narendra Singh Rawal and Sanjaya Shrestha stood second and the third, winning Rs 25,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively.
The 5-km race was started from UN Park in Lalitpur.
Meanwhile, the NC today announced the establishment of a Humanitarian Welfare Fund.
President Thapa said the party would support the homeless people, single women and their children would be supported from the Fund.
