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TCDPAP & FIDIC/ASPAC International Conference 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal
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CLOSING CEREMONY SPEECH
Vote of Thanks
Mr. Hare Ram Shrestha, Vice President /SCAEF
Chairperson of this session and President of SCAEF Mr. Keshab Man Amatya
The Chief Guest Honorable Minister Mr. Ganesh Shah, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology;
President FIDIC Dr. John Boyd;
President-elect Mr. Greg Thomopollous
High Officials of the Govt. of Nepal;
Distinguished Guests;
Representatives of the Media and Press;
Ladies and gentlemen;
Our efforts which we started since last year when we committed to host TCDPAP conference 2009 have
come to an end. Now it is our duty to express vote of thanks to all these who had rendered their support
to us. I on behalf of the organisers . Let me thank our Chief Guest of this closing ceremony Hon. Ganesh
Shah who is our colleague in engineering community, who has supported us with his time and given very
encouraging speech to the consulting community and the engineers.
FIDIC President and President-elect, who stayed with us from the beginning to the end, this is a great
support for us. Thank you Dr. John Boyd and Mr. Thomopulos. We thank TCDPAP President Mr. Karamath
Ullah Chaudry, who had working closely with us and suggested us to organize this conference.Similarly
we thank Mr. A. Hirotani for your support and coming here to be a part of conference. Similarly, TCDPAP
General Secretary Dr. Abrol for giving us support. Our line ministry, Ministry of Physical Planning and
Works and we have here our secretary Mr. Purna Prasad Kadaria and all the team of the ministry. We
would like to record our thanks to the Ministry.
Likewise during the inaugural ceremony, the Prime Ministry Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who despite of his
very busy schedule, encouraged us with his graceful speech. We thank Mr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, Finance
Minister gave a key note address taking the spirit of the conference theme. He and Minister Hisila
are the members of this fraternity, the consultants and engineers. Similarly, we thank the Minister of
Physical Planning and Works, Mr. Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar, who also had a very very pressing time and
had to fly within few minutes to his hometown for very important family works, was with us till the last
minute, supported us and gave a very encouraging speech, We thank all - the Prime Minister and other
ministers for their valuable time and support to us. We also thank the government of Nepal.
Just now our master of ceremony Mr. Rajesh Thapa has read out, the message from the President of
Nepal Mr. Ram Baran Yadav who was so enthusiastic to extend encouragement at personal level to this
seminar. We are very thankful to the President.
We are thankful to the high officials of the Government of Nepal, director generals and chairpersons of
various boards and commissions who have supported by sending the institutional participants.
Similarly, we would like to thank the Asian Development Bank and specially Mr. Terry Woods who have
supported us in various occasions including this time.
Now, I come to the session of technical part, session chairpersons, of course, who have given their
time to chair the sessions and preparing reports. Session chair of Plenary Dr. John Boyd, chairpersons
of technical sessions Mr. Greg Thomopulos, Kishor K. Shakya, Dr. Shankar Sharma, Dr. Jagadish K.
Pokharel, Mr. Badal Lal Nyachhyon, Mr. Kiran Kumar Kapila, and Mr. Subash Malhotra, we thank them all,
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