Persa. In the first five months of the current fiscal year, goods worth Rs 359.23 billion have been imported through Birgunj border point.

Imports have increased by 17 percent in the same period of the last fiscal year compared to the same period of the last fiscal year. Goods worth more than Rs 53.32 billion have been imported. In the first five months of the last fiscal year, goods worth Rs 306.01 billion were imported.

Udaya Singh Bista, information officer at the Birgunj Customs Office, said that the revenue collection has increased significantly in the first five months of the current fiscal year. In the first five months of the current fiscal year, Nepal imported petroleum products worth Rs 72.28 billion. Similarly, iron and iron goods worth Rs 31.65 billion have entered the country.

Machinery and spare parts worth Rs 24.60 billion were imported while import of soybean oil amounted to Rs 22.85 billion.