Minister
of State for Forest Late
Mr. Gopal Rai*'s visit to Astha Children
Care Home, Maitidevi, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Minister of State for Forest
Late Mr. Gopal Rai's vist to Astha
Children welcoming Mr. Rai
to their Astha Home.
Patron, Gulabji Maharaj &
Chairperson, Mr. Bimal Guragain welcoming Mr.
Rai to ASTHA
Mr. Rai's visit to Astha Children Care Home, Kathmandu
Mr. Rai's visit to Astha Children Care Home, Kathmandu
Mr. Guragain briefing about ASTHA's activities
and further plan
Members listening Chairperson's brief about ASTHA
Home
Patron briefing about ASTHA to Late Mr. Gopal
Rai
Late Mr. Gopal Rai noting down the main points
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Sri
Airlines chopper crash: A national tragedy
* Mr. Gopal Rai alongwith 23 passengers
killed in the tragic helicopter (Sri Airlines
91-AhJ-MI-172) crash on 23 September 2006 in the
eastern hilly district of Taplejung,Nepal at Gyabla,
some 2km south of Ghunsa.
Those travelling on the
ill-fated helicopter included Minister of State
for Forest, Gopal Rai, and his
wife Mina, Secretary of the ministry,
Damodar Prasad Parajuli, Director
General at the Department of Forest and Wildlife
Conservation Dr. Tirtha Man Maskey,
WWF country representative Dr. Chandra
Gurung, Charge d’ Affairs of the
Embassy of Finland, Pauli Mustonen,
noted geographer and planner Dr Harka
Gurung, Director General of Department
of National Parks, Wildlife Conservation Narayan
Prasad Poudel. Sarad Kumar
Rai, the Director General of the Department
of Forest, Dr Bigyan Acharya,
program officer USAID, Bijaya Shrestha,
the central committee member of the Federation
of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries
(FNCCI), Hem Raj Bhandari and
Sunil Singh, journalists associated
with state-owned Nepal Television, Dawa
Tshering, Chairman of the Kanchanjunga
Area Conservation Management Council, Yeshi
Lama, Senior Programme Officer of WWF
Nepal, Margaret Alexander, Deputy
Director of the USAID, Dr Jill Bowling,
Conservation Director of WWF-UK, Jennifer
Headley, Regional Coordinator of Eastern
Himalayas, WWF-UK, Matthew Preece,
programme officer of EHBC, WWF-US, Klim
Kim, Captain, (Russia) of the Sri Airlines
helicopter, Valery Slafronov,
(Russia) Crewmember, Mingma Sherpa,
Captain & Tandu Shrestha,
Crewmember.
“ASTHA CHILDREN
CARE HOME, NEPAL
mourns Loss of Mr. Gopal Rai & Conservation
Leaders in Nepal.”
Astha Children Care Home
A unit of Rehabilitation Center for Children and
Orphans (RCCO)
GPO Box No: 19368, Kathmandu, Nepal • TEL: (977)
1-4472106 • FAX: (977) 1-4472106 info@asthahome.org
