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Biratnagar. A week has passed since the Koshi Province government unveiled a budget of 40 billion 44 crore 98 lakh for the upcoming fiscal year 2083/084. While presenting the budget, the Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning, Bidur Kumar Lingthep, described it as a 'blueprint for economic transformation'.The budget prioritizes a 5 percent economic growth rate and the modernization of the agriculture and tourism sectors. As the first week since the budget's unveiling concludes, the private sector has termed the budget encouraging. Economists have drawn the government's attention to increasing budget expenditure capacity and removing economic resource contraction.With the current...