chana, I agree with you. That Ratna Sansar's article was so misleading. Whenever you are making counterfactual argument, you should be able to back it up with honest statistical research. But no, the man just wrote something and Kantipur lapped it up. In a country, where sensationalism trumps honest research, what do you expect? Now, to develop local expertise, we first need to be exposed to foreign expertise, we need to have hundreds of engineers who know what big scale projects are. But if you continue to scare high tech venture, when will we ever have a export oriented hydro industry? Never. It is sexy to oppose projects in Nepal. When Arun was being made, dollar chewing NGO/INGOwallahs made line to present their argument in World Bank. These America educated men were definitely more impressive than our two-hundred-dollar-per-month earning civil servants, and they were able to kill Arun. After a few months, the world bank approved six times bigger Pakistan's Ghazi project. How come India, China, Pakistan all could make big projects, how come USA, Swiss do that, and we are the only people who should worry about environment? Isn't it a bit funny?