Kathmandu, Feb. 17 -- Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday directed the Finance Ministry to sort out the issue of high interest rates charged by banks on loans within three days.

PM Oli made this remark while meeting a delegation from the private sector at the Prime Minister's residence in Baluwatar.

The issue of high interest rates has been a common grievance among industrialists across the country, who say that the high interest rates have been adversely affecting the business sector for nearly two years.

The private sector has also been demanding the government to end the uniformity in insurance premium rate. They said that the insurance premium should not be the same for all sectors and it should be different based on the natur...