Kathmandu. Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle has appointed the program director of his own organization as a director of Rastriya Banijya Bank. On Friday, Wagle appointed Astha Bhatta as the director of the bank on behalf of the Ministry of Finance.

Bhatta is a program specialist at the Institute of Integrated Development Studies. Swarnim Wagle was the chairman emeritus of the same organization before he became the finance minister.

Bhatta has been appointed as the second ranking director of the bank. Suman Dahal, joint secretary at the Ministry of Finance, is in the first ranking. Now, one of the directors of the bank will be the chairman of the bank’s board of directors.