Kathmandu. Prime Minister Balen Shah mentioned that there are Nepali companies that have achieved success all over the world by making games in Nepal and said that the government will create the necessary policies and environment to advance the game development sector as an industry.
Prime Minister Shah has mentioned that through the social network Facebook, games like Ludo and Callbreak made in Nepal have achieved great success all over the world. According to him, the world famous Ludo game has been downloaded about 20 million times and Callbreak game has been downloaded more than 150 million times.
He said that hundreds of young people in Nepal are active in game and app development and discussed with them to get information about the problems and challenges of the field. He said that the necessary homework to develop the game development sector as an industry has been facilitated.
Prime Minister Shah has said that he will review the existing rules, policies and environment so that it is easy to build a global unicorn company from Nepal. He mentioned that the field of IT production and export is also in a potential state, and emphasis will be placed on creating an environment where Nepali talent and companies can easily earn and reinvest it.
According to him, policy reform will be done along with tax relief in the IT sector. The government is also planning to ease the existing rules related to international income.
Likewise, Prime Minister Shah said that there is a plan to invest in game jams, startup programs, regular interaction between the IT sector, Nepal Rastra Bank and the Ministry of Finance, hackathons and various ecosystem programs that will benefit the IT production and gaming industry.