• Nepal will restore a one-day weekly holiday this week after experimenting with Saturday-Sunday holidays.
• Many government and commercial sector offices disobeyed the two-day holiday order.
• Fuel is Nepal’s most important import, accounting for roughly 16 percent of total merchandise imports in the first ten months of fiscal year 2021.

Nepal will restore a one-day weekly holiday this week after experimenting with Saturday-Sunday holidays for a month, an official has stated.

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He claimed that the government must return to a single-day public holiday since two-day holidays have hampered service delivery to the public. Many government and commercial sector offices disobeyed the government’s two-day holiday order.

“Now a one-day public holiday once a week will be observed on Saturday,” Pokharel explained.

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As per the Trade and Export Promotion Center, fuels are Nepal’s most important import, accounting for roughly 16 percent of total merchandise imports in the first ten months of the current fiscal year, which began in mid-July 2021.