The first meeting of province no 5 has begun at Butwal-based provincial assembly building on Sunday.

The State chief of province no 5 had last week called the meeting for today. Welcoming the provincial assembly members in the meeting, the senior-most member of the provincial assembly of province no 5, Baldev Sharma Pokharel, congratulated all for getting historical opportunity and responsibility to institutionalize federal democratic republic ruling system.

He said, "Our desire of making province no 5 an economic, social and culturally prosperous province be fulfilled."

Provincial assembly members took their turns to make their statement in the meeting. Today's meeting would finalize the date for the election of provincial assembly speaker. There are 87 members in this provincial assembly.

Earlier, the Provincial Assembly Secretariat had given final shape to agenda to be presented in the first meeting. A large number of employees, security personnel, representative of local-level bodies and media persons had gathered for the occasion. RSS