I am curious on what folks on Sajha think the main problem in Nepal is. I have created a poll on the following link that will geolocate the response to find out the general idea from the Nepalese diaspora.

Nepal lacks a unified society. Choices that should be the burden of the society are made by individuals. Choices about anti-corruption laws, about social priorities.

http://www.nepalmonitor.com/2009/11/nepal_143_in_corrupt.html

The lack of involvement is obvious. Fear of criticism further deepens the rift between people motivated enough to do and people who want to do something but dont because of a fear that someone might "pull their leg".

If there is a big enough establishment of similar minded pundits who aim for a similar goal, there is a flicker of a chance for change for the better.

Right now, the only establishment is of (as i have understood) selfish "chair-loving" culprits who term themselves as politicians but have their own goals. The absence of a unanimous aim stretches the scene to all directions (cuz of these individual goals) and the country ends up going no where.

The basis of change sit on temples of learning, education. The educated sit in foreign lands wanting to go back, but not yet ready to leave the comforts of a first world country. The people who drive our dear country are the ones who didn't get to go anywhere, who didn't get a proper education, whose hearts are filled with angst that there are people who are luckier than them, they want to "get rich quick" without understanding the toils of hard work, taking shortcuts has become the norm.

And this leaves every one, every citizen, every man child woman grandfather with a bad taste in their mouth. Everyone has dreams, even the makkai bechne didi sitting on the bridge all day selling bhuttans to passerbys. But because of a few selfish people, there is suddenly this immense wave of distrust sweeping the community.

Need to curb that 0.0005% of the population who are the actual malicious miscreants. (Mao was successful in doing exactly this half a century ago.)

If you greet someone with a genuine smile, you will be greeted back with double intensity.

On a lighter note, Nepal should implement 'BearHug day'. Maybe lighten up the mood, strengthen bonds ;).

Jai Nepal.

Having a major portion of the population educated would be a good
solution, but the likelihood of that happening is very slim. It can
happen if we have a good political system and leadership.



Currently most of the leaders come from old school educational system
if at all. These leaders are mostly busy looking after their own
interests and filling their coffers. The only hope for nepal is to have
better educated leaders. I think it would be more positive to have leaders who are educated in
the west. If you haven't been abroad and exposed to the different
lifestyles then you end up perpetuating the same kind of system. Most of the current leaders are not educated and even if they are educated they carry the constricted views from the education they
received half a century ago.

Social reform, Social reform and Social reform before any political reform. Put it simply, it is like Americans trying to bring democracy in Iraq, which the Iraqi never understood why or had the need for it to begin with.
We can only achieve this through some changes in what we believe that has to do with religion and culture. Look, right now, there is no priorities taught to the kids except to love their family, die for them and nothing beyond that. When have you seen a Nepali kid volunteering for things like cleaning the street, helping libraries, feeding the poor, charities, youth club and many more. Mobilize the youth through faith and culture for positive steps. It is not going to come through lectures or school teachings, it has to seed from within the fabrics of our belief. These things don't come with parenting, it needs a culture (value) that comes from a collective effort and practices. The concept of "GREATER GOOD" needs to be injected for practical and do-able beliefs, not through flying monkey god and meditating nirvana achiever. Your culture is heavily shaped by the religion you believe in, it changes with time with new adaptations. If it has no moral that will collectively benefit a society (not just your family), it distorts our priorities, which we are facing now. Take care of your family and you are a good son, anything is justified. And our values says, that is the right thing, what else? you might be asking.We're hard working and smart breed of people, yet nothing changes ever, and it will never until we change our VALUES.
There are lots of educated people in Nepal itself. When we say "educated"...it does not have to be Computer Programmer....it means a basic understanding of fair and equal chances, right and wrong, which you can attain from a Nepali educational system, no western education needed. So to say only the foreign educated can make a difference is a weak and unsecured excuse. May be, what you're trying to say is that they have seen something different, some better options, practices, values from other cultures. In reality what you're really looking is, you are looking for the values achieved from overseas (an outcome of the teachings, not the teaching itself), it does not mean they can beat you in calculus.Well it doesn't matter until we have a environment that will foster that idea. I've seen many educated people go back, some even into politics, they have all fallen under the same social ruin after a while.
Education is NOT everything, it is a tool. Unless you use it or has the place or the need to use it, it cannot bring the change you wish for. Although it is not very suitable for this great thought from the a scientist (forget he's a scientist with this one, it's very philosophical), Albert Einstein said

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

Jai Nepal...soon going to be Jai Hind.

Among the options you provided were :

Lack of Education
Poverty
Lack of Security
Political Dreadlock
Other (Please Discuss)

I am wondering what a Political Dreadlock is? Are you talking about politicians who have hair like that of Bob Marley or Peter Tosh? Or are you rather referring to the term "political deadlock"?

Jokes aside, such deadlock becomes rife when there is no clear winning political party though the Maoists bagged the majority of the seats in the last national election. Current situation is the same political deja vu as that of the Baaisey and Chaubise Raajyas who were weakening each other regularly until strongman PN Shah came along for unification. That reminds me of the famous quote by Bill Clinton ""When people are insecure, they'd rather have somebody who is strong and wrong than someone who's weak and right." Folks! it's judgement time that befalls upon us right now which party is to lead the country out of all this.

Lack of suitable education and vocational/entrepreneurial training are causes of dismal literacy and poverty. Child labor should be completely banned and free HS education (with need-based free boarding aid) needs to be implemented so that the next generation don't have to suffer the same plight as this one. University education should be highly subsidized by the government, if not free.

Next, a FBI or CBI-like agency should be established in Nepal led by individuals who have shown outstanding integrity in their lives and careers. Political leaders and government officials should be randomly placed under corruption sting operations or under secret observations. Those who are found guilty of corruption beyond reasonable doubt should have their individual properties nationalized followed by cost-effective incarceration.

We all Nepali.

lack of ethics is the main cause in Nepal.

@Mr. Hyde---thanks for the snarkey remark :)