Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Lekhraj Bhatta has said that internal investment should be encouraged for the industrial development in the country.

Talking to business leaders at Hetauda Industrial State this evening, Minister Bhatta admitted that the internal investors were disappointed while working hard to bring in foreign investments.

Saying that the government has forwarded a strategy for the industrial development by encouraging private sector, Minister Bhatta also shared that the government was working to make the nation self-reliant through industries.

He also said that the federal government was holding discussion to handover the industrial state to the state government while arguing that decision would be taken soon to run the Hetauda Garments Industry.