This is a haphazard decision. I think this is going to be rectified (by the elected government when things settle down and a certain equilibrium/stability is achieved) and most of these new holidays and some of the older Hindu holidays too will become “National festivals” and “Local/community holidays”.

If that did not happen, then there will be two Nepals. One, hard working and efficient “private sector Nepal” (private businesses, private schools etc) disregarding these holidays, and, the second, lazy and inefficient “Public sector Nepal” enjoying all of them and doing not much worthy. This can not last long.

To put it rhetorically, democracy, being a self-correcting system, must correct these hopefully transitional/transient anomalies as time goes by, or so I believe.

Nepe