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Introduction:
Trade is
one of the major aspects of the national economy. The efficient
administration of trade is one primary responsibility of the
national government. As trade sector involves imports and
exports, both aspects assume importance for the economic
development of the country. Imports materials and consumers'
goods, which cannot be produce within the country, or which are
not available adequately within the country. On the production
for the purpose of earning the much needed foreign exchange.
Naturally a developing country like Nepal would need the
presence of several agencies both in the public and private
sector to coordinate the above activities and manage its trade
efficiently.
National
Trading Limited is under the Ministry of Commerce of Government
of Nepal (GoN). It has a Board of Directors, which consists of
five members, is responsible for formulating short and
long-term policies on NTL’s periodical plans, programmers and
policies. The Chairman and the General Manager are responsible
for the appropriate execution of the plans, programmers and
policies formulated and decided by the Board. The chairman and
the board member are all appointees of GoN.
The Board
of NTL has representation in it’s from the most relevant
ministries and department of Government of Nepal. Since the
Board member has been drawn from the interrelated ministries of
GoN, this has resulted in easy coordination and efficient
decision-making at the policy level.
NTL’s
organization structure has undergone continuous as per the
increasing volume of trading activities, which are also guided
by the growing development works under various plan periods as
well as because of the ever increasing needs of the people in
general for consumer goods. As a result, NTL has a diversified
organization structure consisting of eight different
departments at central office; it has five regional offices,
ten branch offices, and one foreign based office in Calcutta,
besides the NTL head office in Kathmandu.
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