Project Proposal: Retirement village in Nepal

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Target Group: At present, according to an official report 60,000 resident Nepalese have either green cards or have adopted U.S. Citizenship. On conservative assumption, 5% of that number have obligation to support their old parents in Nepal. The number of such old people who may opt to stay in well organized retirement homes in Nepal will come to 3000 people. Starting Number: Due to constraints of land, capital and management experience we propose to start with a scheme of housing, caring and entertaining only 108 old people which is an auspicious member according to the eastern tradition. Land: We prefer to locate this project site in the adjoining villages outside Kathmandu or Pokhara valley, as land price inside the valleys are exorbitantly high. About 100 to 200 ropanis of land (1 acre equals about 8 ropanis) will be purchased or leased. Capital: The detailed cost of the project is to be worked out after deciding the land site and land costs. It will also be limited by the annual expenditure and overhead costs which is affordable for the resident senior citizens. Management: The whole project will be managed by professional managers with hotel and resort management experience and supervised by dedicated social workers. Objectives: Providing health and happiness facilities to the resident senior citizens Providing friendly and spiritual environment. Providing beautiful and peaceful landscaped park for exercise and walking. Providing a reading room, entertainment rooms, play rooms to the senior citizens. Providing and running meditation halls and prayer temples Providing a gym for light exercise. Providing and cultivating a vegetable garden. Providing and running a small well equipped hospital with outdoor patient service for the local villagers. Presented By: Gauri Shankar Rajbanshi Maharajgunj, Kathmandu - 03 Nepal Phone: 977-1-4443555 Email: mrajbanshi@wlink.com.np

GSRajbanshi · Oct 23, 2013 1:37 PM · 8,176 views

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Wy on earth someone would go to your village if the person has his belongings and root in some other part of Nepal? If those retirees get somewhere around 500 bucks as pension (from their relative or childrens), they can afford lavish life and a private nurse in any part of Nepal. Moreover they can brag to their childhood pals and neighbours "hamro chora le esto garcha chori le usto garche". Your business proposal has very limited prospective customers. I'd opt out of this. Last edited: 23-Oct-13 01:49 PM

kalikopoi · Oct 23, 2013 1:48 PM

i agree with kalikopoi here. Instead, if your proposal would focus on how to provide varied services- (laundry, cooking, cleaning) to older folks where they live, it would make much more sense. 

snurp · Oct 23, 2013 2:21 PM

This is not a bad project, obviously a good draft for a proposal. Snurp and Kalikopoi's concerns are valid, but not everybody will take everything the same way. Big housing projects would have been a ridiculous idea 15 years ago, now its a thriving business with one project planning to construct a whole village (800 homes). I am sure there will be customers for this kind of proposal. My only question is what you wanted from us.

Kiddo · Oct 23, 2013 2:50 PM

Don't think this will fly. Societal bonds are much stronger in Nepal than in the US. Even if their kids are abroad, older folks get a lot of friendship and support from their relatives, peers and neighbors. Not like here where relatives barely talk and relationships get severed after a small hiccup.  I don't think you could build a housing project exclusively targeting older people. Older people don't want to live with other strange older people in Nepal.

hakim_saab · Oct 23, 2013 4:16 PM

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Project Proposal: Retirement village in Nepal

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