Kathmandu. Upendra Shahi, a master's student at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University, has presented a research report on "Madan Bhandari's concept of Nepal's foreign policy: Ideas for protecting national interests and conducting foreign relations" to the Madan Bhandari Foundation Study Coordination Committee.
On the occasion, Coordinator of the Foundation's Department of Education Studies and Research and Former Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, Prof. Dr. Prem Sagar Chapagain, Dr. Deepak Aryal, Dr. Kundan Aryal expressed their opinions on the topics obtained from the research and gave necessary suggestions for the future.
At the research report presentation program, Foundation Secretary Pemba Lama informed that the Foundation can publish the research report as a research paper by incorporating the suggestions received.
On 2078 Kartik, an agreement was signed between the Foundation and the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy to provide study and research grants.
According to the Madan Bhandari Study-Research Procedure, arrangements have been made to provide Rs 60,000 for the postgraduate level, Rs 100,000 for the MPhil level, and Rs 300,000 for the PhD level. For that, the Foundation has also established the Madan Bhandari Study Research Fund.
Similarly, on Ashad 12, 2078, an agreement was signed between the Madan Bhandari Foundation and seven different departments of Tribhuvan University to conduct a study and research on the fundamental principle of people's multi-party democracy propounded by the people's leader Madan Bhandari in higher education.
The study is expected to highlight the personality of people's leader Madan Bhandari and help in the practical implementation of people's multi-party democracy.
To complete the work, a five-member fund management committee has been formed under the coordination of Sushil Pyakurel, Coordinator of the Foundation's Social Campaign Department.
Similarly, under the coordination of the Foundation's Education Study Research Department and former Foreign Minister Pandey, the Foundation's Secretary Lama, Prof. Dr. A Research Coordination Committee has been formed, consisting of Dr. Chapagain, Dr. Deepak Aryal, and Dr. Kundan Aryal, which has a provision for subject matter experts.
