Emotionally, it is good. But practically it will be headache. Kathmandu might adopt it, but rest of the country won't adopt it. Why should they? It does not make sense to the people of Nepal outside Kathmandu. It will fade away. It is whimsical. It does not make any worthy move even for Newar other than an emotional achievement. It is a whimsical move like Gyanendraism. I would have appreciated it if they had moved the Bikram Sambat's Baisakh 1 to April 1, and followed the year as in Bikram Sambat. In doing so, the length of months should have perfectly matched the Georgian Calendar months, and avoiding the mismatches due to differential lengths of months, particularly, Jestha, Asahd, or Shrawan where two of them are usually 32 days long in Solar Calendar.

Giving too much weight to a particular group neglecting the majority of the country where the majority does not understand this calendar, will eventually be useless and bring more confusion. More mess, more chaos, and increased randomness in a country where resources are precious and a few. What happens to those books, libraries, and information already published in existing calendar? Did they do some homework? I don't think so. Well, congratulations to Newars of Kathmandu if they feel it a great win, but if they consider this as a pity thing as wise Americans think that the color of Obama is not important in this election, what is important is his economic, health and education plan, then the leaders from Newar community should come forward and reject this new adoption by declaring that this is not an important issue at this time, and get respect from the rest of the country. But, if Newars stick to such thing, Newars lose the credibility to be main stream Nepali, but they are just a Janajati, and they can not represent Nepal, but represent just a small community of several million people in Kathmandu. I don't think that the Newars outside Kathmandu will even care this move. If you are Newar leader, and have a gut, say no to this move, and be a national leader. It is a time of test. Believe or not.