Posted by: Shantipriya January 11, 2011
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NGOism, people following thier ideology, vested interest and their prescribed method to achieve what these people defined as " development".
Moving forward is very diffiicult purely because we have dismantled 1.our socio-cultural value system, 2.our securty and law enforcement mehanism is humiliated, made currupt, 4. we are made to believe old political system is unproductive, outdated, undemocratic so on and so forth. (monarchy become mere escape goat), 5. Political leaders nor have energy nor they have conviciton that they can really pull somehting out of these chaos, let alone the development.
More than that, we are too biased, we lost the capacity to rise above from political ideology. We blame for past for our failaure at present but we never learnt from past.
Gyanguru, I do not know how old you were, but I lived enough in panchayat era. On 1990, I went on the street, pelted stone to policeman, I can still feel the pain and swell of batton charge, I thank god for not getting any bullet. But very soon after that, dream of democracy became the worst nightmare. But now thatnks to those nfrastructure projects, industries that were established in panchayt area, nepal still surviving. I do not think we lost everything in during panchayat, yes leaders did lose a lot, but common man did not.
Things happend during panchayat-
1. Nepal got UN membership-else Indira Gandhi was ready to make Nepal another Sikkim, Sikkim was not UN/Independent country then.
2. Major highways including east west highway which connected nepal east to west.
3. Balju Industrialized Area- and Patan Industrain Area- was planned effort to industrialize the nation.
4. First formal Plannig started that time, King Mahendra and Pashupati Shumsher (then CEDA professor) contribution to that now we forgot.
5. Janakpur Cigrette Factory, Bansbari Chala Jutta, Bhrikuti Paper Mills, Birgunj Sugar Factory, Himal Cement, Hetaunda Cement, Salt Trading, National Trading, Saja Yatayat, RNAC (one used to have more than dozen boeing), Nepal Dursanchar Sansthan, Radio Nepal, Nepal Telivsion, National Computer Center (now gone) and many others happened during panchayat.
6. akthiyar was a strong force-curruption control was much mofe efficeint than that of now, not to mention DB Lama, Bhart Gurung were jailed later realsed thanks to democracy.
6. During panchayat how many hydropower projects were completed and after that how many you compare.
Now someone will say, after democracy our 1.media is developed-but does that anything to do with people who live in remote area. 2. We have more universities now-but can poor guy can afford KU or other private university
3. we have medical college now-yes but if you do not have money can you really take advantage of that.
4. we have hell lot of private banks now-but are they providing loans to poor farmer? NO. during panchayat they used to have " sana kisan bikash pariyojana"-which would give cheap loans to farmers. Now gone are those days.
5. Only good thing happened during this time is that " onced despised/deprived people woken up".
Movingfoward will be ok if we bring back good things happened in the past and avoid bad things that happens in the past-but are we ready? at present no one political force has ability to take country to next levels- maoists, NC, UML and King (still is a force) need to cometogether on one table then only we will survive. otherwise , one day sood will kick your ass and other day one chinese guy..!
Moving forward is very diffiicult purely because we have dismantled 1.our socio-cultural value system, 2.our securty and law enforcement mehanism is humiliated, made currupt, 4. we are made to believe old political system is unproductive, outdated, undemocratic so on and so forth. (monarchy become mere escape goat), 5. Political leaders nor have energy nor they have conviciton that they can really pull somehting out of these chaos, let alone the development.
More than that, we are too biased, we lost the capacity to rise above from political ideology. We blame for past for our failaure at present but we never learnt from past.
Gyanguru, I do not know how old you were, but I lived enough in panchayat era. On 1990, I went on the street, pelted stone to policeman, I can still feel the pain and swell of batton charge, I thank god for not getting any bullet. But very soon after that, dream of democracy became the worst nightmare. But now thatnks to those nfrastructure projects, industries that were established in panchayt area, nepal still surviving. I do not think we lost everything in during panchayat, yes leaders did lose a lot, but common man did not.
Things happend during panchayat-
1. Nepal got UN membership-else Indira Gandhi was ready to make Nepal another Sikkim, Sikkim was not UN/Independent country then.
2. Major highways including east west highway which connected nepal east to west.
3. Balju Industrialized Area- and Patan Industrain Area- was planned effort to industrialize the nation.
4. First formal Plannig started that time, King Mahendra and Pashupati Shumsher (then CEDA professor) contribution to that now we forgot.
5. Janakpur Cigrette Factory, Bansbari Chala Jutta, Bhrikuti Paper Mills, Birgunj Sugar Factory, Himal Cement, Hetaunda Cement, Salt Trading, National Trading, Saja Yatayat, RNAC (one used to have more than dozen boeing), Nepal Dursanchar Sansthan, Radio Nepal, Nepal Telivsion, National Computer Center (now gone) and many others happened during panchayat.
6. akthiyar was a strong force-curruption control was much mofe efficeint than that of now, not to mention DB Lama, Bhart Gurung were jailed later realsed thanks to democracy.
6. During panchayat how many hydropower projects were completed and after that how many you compare.
Now someone will say, after democracy our 1.media is developed-but does that anything to do with people who live in remote area. 2. We have more universities now-but can poor guy can afford KU or other private university
3. we have medical college now-yes but if you do not have money can you really take advantage of that.
4. we have hell lot of private banks now-but are they providing loans to poor farmer? NO. during panchayat they used to have " sana kisan bikash pariyojana"-which would give cheap loans to farmers. Now gone are those days.
5. Only good thing happened during this time is that " onced despised/deprived people woken up".
Movingfoward will be ok if we bring back good things happened in the past and avoid bad things that happens in the past-but are we ready? at present no one political force has ability to take country to next levels- maoists, NC, UML and King (still is a force) need to cometogether on one table then only we will survive. otherwise , one day sood will kick your ass and other day one chinese guy..!