The Tourism Year 2082 campaign of Koshi Province was officially inaugurated on April 9, 2025
Although the Koshi provincial government announced to celebrate the current Nepali year 2082 as the ‘Koshi Tourism Year’, no concrete tourism-promotion programmes have been implemented, even though the first four months of the year have already passed.
Due to the government’s unstable policy, decision to cut the budget by 25 per cent, and the lack of coordination between ministries, the province’s tourism development plans have remained confined to paper.
With the uncertainty over the budget reduction unresolved, programmes related to the Koshi Tourism Year 2082 have not even been launched this year. The provincial government had decided to withhold 25 per cent of the total budget, saying it needed to reduce expenditure this fiscal year. To implement that decision, the Ministry of Tourism, Forests and Environment had recommended the removal of low-priority programmes and forwarded the proposal to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning (MoEAP) a long time ago.
