Kathmandu : Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Basanta Kumar Nembang today took charge of four additional ministries.

Minister Nembang took the ministerial berths of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Drinking Water.

Taking charge of the ministries, he said the government was effortful to protect the citizens from double whammy of COVID pandemic and natural disaster.

Nembang had taken the charge of Ministry of Physical Infrastructure on November 2019. In the meantime, he had also discharged the responsibility of Urban Minister for around seven months.