Pokhara, 05 November, 2026
Pokhara University welcomed Ahreum Cho, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Korea in Nepal, on an official visit. The visit mainly reviewed the projects supported and funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) at the university.
The Minister Counsellor was received by the Registrar, Prof. Dr. Nirmala Jamarkattel. They discussed the projects running at the university with the support of the ROK’s Ministry of Science and Technology. The discussion also covered how the sustainability of these projects can be ensured and how they can be operationalized more efficiently in the future.
The delegation then toured the project sites. At the NITEC training lab, the team saw the machine developed there, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ajay Thapa, former Registrar and project lead of the Allo Project developed under NITEC, gave an internal briefing. The delegation then visited the Information Access Center (IAC), a digital infrastructure facility developed with ROK support, where Assoc. Prof. Dr. Balram Bhattarai, Director of the School of Business, briefed the team on its facilities, infrastructure and activities. The team also visited the administrative building under construction at the Central Office.
About NITEC
The Nepal Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Center (NITEC) is based at Pokhara University. It was inaugurated on 26 January 2016 as part of the Korean science ministry’s science and technology support programme for developing countries. It was the third such centre, after those in Cambodia and Laos, and was run with Handong Global University of Korea. The first phase ran from July 2015 to June 2019. It focused on appropriate technologies in solar and micro-hydro energy and in processing Himalayan specialty products, and on supporting technology-based startups by local people. Its first programme, Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship Training, reached about 100 university students and local residents. NITEC technologies developed for lokta, nettle and allo processing have been registered as four patents in Pokhara University’s name.