Nepal has seen several revolutions since 1950s but every elected government bodies have failed to keep their promises. Sacrifices have gone in vain. We nepalese know well by now party system do not function well and we always hope after every election Nepal will turn over a new leaf! We are dreaming similar dream again. The new govt. is trying to find a new guy for president and Mr.Nepal is on the top of the list (I think I am gone deaf). They turned down Harvard Graduate Ambassador for the president. My question -

1. Are we not ready for intellectuals to run the country?

2. Are we not tired of illiterate politicians? For example - let's ask the forest and soil minister = what is a ecosystem and what is a soil profile? I guarantee he will stumble.

BTW I am still waiting for answers for my previous questions. Come on guys, u can answer them.

More questions coming ur way.

Enjoy 

F22,

thanks for asking. Nepal falls in 25 biodiversity hotspots. a hotspot is such a place that harbors globally threatened floral and faunal species. topographically, Nepal is divided into 3 distinct belts or regions - terai, midhills and mountians due to which each region has different vegetation, climate and wildlife. another natural resource is our river systems. we have ~ 6000 rivers/streams that has ~ 80,000 KW elcectric capacity. even if could tap 40% of it we would be rich. right now we are tapping less than 5%. no wonder we have rediculous load sheddings.

plus we have two landmarks - Mt.Everest and Lumbini that has attracted tourists from all over the world. nepal attracted more than 300,000 tourists during 1990s with its spectacular mountains and unique wildlife especially our rhino. but million dollar question  = where does the money go?

i can explain more but have to take a break. join u guys later.

enjoy

unicornis bro,

I disagree with your statement that there are no opportunities....There are opportunities otherwise how are Indians making money off of Nepal....Most people are not aware of business opportunities in Nepal....Think about the fertilizer that we apply to our fields what if we manufactured it in Nepal rather than getting it from India....What if textile industry moved to villages where people make their living by waving rather then a city where Banda's and unions are always a problem...How about producing feed in Midhill to supply to the mountains and midhill of nepal...the list goes on.... Then you might say security...Well if you are making a profitable business by doing these things that you can lobby local group for protection by providing them incentives (money, and insurance) or lobby with the government or start your own industry security firm ( we have so many retired Gorkhas and youths available)....

Also in Nepal there are many places where due to insufficient irrigation facility food production is low....How about some industrious Nepali engineer find a sustainable way to supply these area with water and take some profit....Isn't that what engineers do find a problem and build solutions....These ideas among others are common sense....

Nepal hero bro,

Opportunities have different meanings. What u are saying is already there and these are short term benefits. And we need chemicals to make fertilizers and again we have to import from India. Planting textile industries in every nooks and corners would help the locals to some extent but how about fresh graduates from colleges with all kinds of degrees? We do have plenty of US graduates mostly in IT/accounting/business and PhDs in other fields. But is Nepal ready to embrace them? No not yet. Nepal do not have the ability to supply the jobs to Nepalese graduates let alone for us. This is why there is a massive brain and manpower drain.

Indians are clever and they grabbed the opportunity and established their business such as Golcha/Chaudary groups. i think their business expansion have staurated by now.

On the other hand, u talk about sustainability. We are running out of space to plant crops (it is the scenario in every part of the world), popualtion is growing and very soon we have to import rice etc.

so my honest opinion is unless and until we build the infrastructure such as roadways, strenghten IT,tourism and other industries, and use donations wisely we are heading towards doomsday steadily. and to achieve this, we need skilled and educated manpower with a solid work ethic.

enjoy

Nice to go through a productive thread after a really long time. Let me start off with thanking ya'll for all the things, i did feel the insights of few of the members in the discussion. I am not a scholar, but i guess putting my thoughts in would not hurt anyone.

Nepal is still primitive, the primary focus of the Govt should be basics. Start with the basics. Focus more on infrastructures, make it easier for students to go to school, to go give their SLC examination, provision for higher education, electricity, build the god damn roads, lemme see the Melamchi project running before I die and the list would never end.

For all of this to happen, we need to have a better system of checks and balances, need to make reports more public, need a commission to overlook the commission, need to enforce judicial branch.

We need to get money from forein bodies for wotever project we need to start!! If all the grants that we got were loans, our country would be always be in a panic, never come out of it. And even the help we receive hardly reaches down to wot it was actually for.

We need to tighten and collect all the due taxes, property taxes, vehicel taxes, income taxes; we need to raise the penalties and fines, bond fees. Collect all the dues owed to the Govt Authorities by ministers, KING, Mayors, n everybody...............

WE NEED TRY N BE AS MUCH SELF DEPENDANT AS POSSIBLE, though it is not really possible right at the moment, but I would love to see at least some development in my lifetime.

Jai Desh Jai Ganesh :P

unicornis bro on agriculture aspect, I think u got the wrong impression....We still have a lot of space we just don't have irrigation facility which is why our production is low... We also don't have people who are willing to farm....In that case what my idea was to buy this food producing land and then to have a farmer who is willing to take care of it to do so with profit sharing....

http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/399/NepaliPan/14780

Look through this article and there are other ones....

Road way and other infrastructure is a great idea but again if you only have the middle class benefiting....meaning someone who can afford a farm will be able to make use if the road and the not poor farmers....There has to be a purchasing power capabilities with the poor so they can also reap the benefits...The profits can also be used to cater the infrastructure for the farmer along with other middle class....

Nepal Hero bro,

Glad the discussion is going strong. I urge everyone to google 'CIA Factbook, Nepal'. this site provide all the info about any country that trange from geography to economy to population.

Nepal is ~147,000 sq km in size - a lot smaller then the island of Madagascar (just comparision). ~80% of Nepal's land is rugged terrains, ~ 20% is terai. where is the most concentration of the population? obviously terai. so we have ~ 20% of land that is arable and ur plan is to boost agriculture to feed the whole nation. we already have 76% labor force in agriculture that shows, our land productivity has reached the peak. terrace farming in the midhills contributes something but it is contributing plenty to soil erosion. the major of soil erosion is the loss of top soil which is the most fertile one for crops. this is why bangladesh delta is rich and fertile.

again if u ask me and most people agrees with me, we have to build our infrastructure and for that we need money and skilled manpower. if i was given any respectable position, i would push 'ecotourism' to a great length cause we have top eight mountains and rhino to attract any tourist. this is the practice of sustainability or it is a win win situation. we don't have to clear our forests or irrigate our rivers dry. we have to monitor the revenue very closely and with this very revenue we can boost other sectors such as hydropower. with the revenue, we can pave airstrips in the mountain and terai regions so tourist don't have to travel 5-6 hrs in a bus to get to see rhino. again, to achieve this, we need educated personnels who knows the definition of tourism, knows computer and hot tools like GIS and remote sensing. it all boild to only one thing = eductaion!!