Posted by: WhatYouSay October 25, 2007
1000 Plans For The Development of Nepal
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The principal cause of political uncertainty and thus economic misery stem from corruption, alignment to power centers, lawlessness, impunity and high-handedness of kingpins. The major players to affect our political and economic future are richest persons with strong political lineage, central political leaders, royal family members, army generals, India, China, USA, Britain, Japan, EU, RIM and religious missionaries. Leaders close to central power and those wishing the same have collaborated with major power centers to satisfy political (and economic) ambitions.

State has never took criminal actions against the those(royal family members, prime ministers, minister, secretaries, institution heads, smugglers) involved in high-level corruption. Judiciary system is itself infected with slow action, bribery and nonchalancy towadrs the poor seeking justice. The same applies to police force. They need drastic reform, training and modernization. Without social and economic justice there cannot be reconciliation, peace and prosperity. The huge gap between the rich and poor, between aristocrats and underprivileged should be narrowed. The trend of amassing huge wealth through illegal means should be first stopped.

Definitely education is the basis for all development. Without knowledge development whether physical or spiritual is meaningless. People should have access to basic health facilities. One should not die without education, treatment and food or water. 

The major sources of income are sources of corruption resulting poor revenue. The actual revenue should have been several times of the present value. This is the principal reason behind goverments inability to expend in education, health, employment and infrastructure development. Actually it is a cycle. More judicial expenditure means more economic activities, more employment, more revenue and faster development pace. So revenue department needs overhaul and punishment to the defaulters and officials.

We should embark on the meaningful investment on infrastructure development. Our investment should not be wasted. Most of the investment on rural drinking water and irrigation projects are examples of wasteful investment because of lack of quality of work. Maybe they lack good engineering judgment and design and implementation. People were unable to get benefited from most of the water supply and irrigation schemes because they did not work at all.

Economic opportunities must be created through infrastructure development activities, cottage industries, resource based industry, internal and external tourism, industrial agriculture especially high value corps, commercial herbal planting, processing and exploitation of hydropower for electricity, irrigation and domestic or industrial use. The export of labor at such a pathetic low wage should change. We should provide genuine training to edge over competing labors from other countries to win higher wage and any exploitation or cheating of innocent poor should be immediately stopped. There should be a separate judiciary to deal with any complaint against ill practices. This is a business of several billion rupees (difficult to figure out if we account for the all amount taken by the middlemen alluring desperate job seekers faking good jobs) where big shots are behind giving troubles to hundreds, if not thousands of labors seeking job in foreign countries.

Whatever the political system Nepal is going to embrace, the foremost important thing is the election should be cost effective, free and fair. All election campaign should be simple and low cost. There should be severe restrictions on over publicity and buying of votes. All posters on wall, billboards, and pamphlets should be banned. Information to the voters should be provided though radio, television, notice board and door-to-door campaign. The political parties should be held accountable to their election manifesto, which should be passed by a judicial council. Because in a system any thing should not go against the constitution. Any monetary investment in election should be curtailed to the extent possible.

Fundamental human rights and freedom of expression and freedom of movement should be strictly honored by the government, parties and persons. Should not give privileges of deciding on Nepal and Nepalese to other nations. The basis of leading a country should be the Nepalese people not the other country. Without vision and unrelenting commitment for betterment of Nepal and Nepalese one leader cannot garner the support of the millions. Most of the leaders in Nepal lack peoples' mandate or support. PM Girija has evidently lacked popular support. But he has been a political heavyweight for decades. Why?

National unity among the diversity, respect to each other and ending all forms of discrimination, economic agenda and just distribution of economic opportunities, judicial and election reform, cessation of impunity are pillars of Nepal's success in days to come.

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