the city from mountain hills region, are coming into so these small cities and medium-sized cities, and not to Katmandu. So then I think that maybe a government policy should be made that this kind of trend of migration and distribution of population pattern should be kept like that. So I think preventing the excessive concentration of population and industry into Katmandu, we should be the thinking in that way. I think that maybe Madam Pandey may make a comment on this also.
I think, however, that it is very interesting. So we can now make an appropriate policy to continue maintaining these countries, not giving so much concentration on population and industry in Katmandu. I think that's better -- my hypothesis must be a better one.
I have just one more point in connection with the experience of Nepal. In Japan we also had many experiences. In this connection, we had dramatic concentrations of population and industry in the big, largest metropolitan areas like Osaka and Tokyo -- and there were times that the government was very clever and recognized that. They wanted to prevent heavy migration and also the concentration of industry into the large cities. Then as early as 1961, a very wonderful policy has been adopted. With this new policy, I forgot the exact name of this law, the government wanted to prevent the heavy migration from rural areas to the largest metropolitan areas. So, they wanted to establish an in-between between the local area and the largest metropolitan area. They wanted to create an in-between, I remember that 25 years ago, a kind of a new industrial city or zone, something like that. And then a tremendous investment had been made to prevent migration from rural areas coming into the big cities. You don't need to come into Tokyo, you should just to get out of here. We have a nice place, you have enough land area which is also very cheap so that you can establish new factories and also dormitories. It's okay. But actually, what happened, I think, the idea was wonderful one, but actually was not legal-ized. The profession in the industry did not recognize it. Oh, what happened here, we don't know it - then here we should go to Tokyo and Osaka and that way. So, this idea was a very good one, but sadly the time was amiss, the time was lost, too early. But eventually this kind of investment was becoming to be useful, three years later, three years later this kind of investment was coming to be very much effective. Now there is too much concentration in a big city like Tokyo, so they wanted to go out because of the environment and also scale of the economy. And the environment is coming to be varied once in a while and the living environment also comes to worse and some countries. There is also the extremely high cost to establish a factory in Tokyo, so some of them are going out. And then again, on the other hand, the local area is now going to have some way of employment opportunity due to the regional development policy of the government .
So I think that just like they are now happy in the Terai region, in some cities, it is very similar to our experience in Japan, Thank you so much. (Applause)
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