Posted by: samarthan August 20, 2010
Pukar Chhetri: Sticky thread needed
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None of such permanent funds would work when needed. Those funds will be a nice platform for a bunch of corrupts, who pretend to manage and take care of it. Tell me a pessimist, but I don't see possibility of any success of that sort of funds collected by a mandatory contribution.

Donation collection when needed, like this one, is fine. All the collected donation would go for real cause in this kind of voluntary collection drive, whereas, it would need administrative and miscellaneous costs for the permanent nature funds even if the corruption is prevented.

To be straightforward, Nepalese government has in fact collected mandatory contribution. We pay huge fee (I think it is about Rs 10000 now) for our passport, which cost not more than Rs 50 (to print the old paper passport). Even if we separate Rs 1000 for administrative expense, the government collects a lot of extra money from the passport holders. Is not that a kind of mandatory contribution? But, why government does not step in to rescue and help its citizens having trouble?

The authorities like Nepalese embassy and the ambassador should feel ashamed for being unable to help at all, and witness an individual like Mr. Kasti taking all the responsibility of sending the dead body back. The Nepalese embassy has budget for such unanticipated cause, which is
mostly misused and spent to fund the expenses for guests coming from
Nepal, who are mostly corrupt leaders. Why do we need this embassy, and why do we need this ambassador? The ambassador is busy in attending parties and meetings and speaking to the interviews. Is he here just to party and chitchat? Is preparation of "no objection" letter enough? Did the embassy do anything to collect information, and to help the troubled family and their friends? Do they understand why we pay so much price for the passport?


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