Posted by: WikiLeaks March 7, 2011
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The once powerful all inclusive only Nepali umbrella organization ANA is showing signs of becoming defunct after last year's financial fiasco during the Boston convention.
2011 ANA Convention was to be held at Denver Colorado, but ANA has recently made a press release announcing this year's ANA convention to be held in Washington DC. It is a known fact that organizers of Denver, Colorado had major reservations partnering with the ANA after witnessing the bitter partnership with the organizers from Boston. The fact that they had to resort to organizing the ANA at their home turf shows that they were not capable of capturing any interest from any of the plentiful Nepali organizations spread across the United States. Observers have noted that pretty soon ANA would be lucky to end up serving the VA/MD/DC area in the future if they are not able to regain the trust of Nepalis residing the US.
ANA used to be the only influencial Nepali organization in the the US as a whole, but this influence is gradually slipping away due to the incompetence and personal agenda displayed within it's core committee.
At this point, there is a panic within it's central committee because of the accounting abnormalies haunting them from the Boston convention. Observers have noted that the Boston convention abnormalties are just a tip of the iceberg. As the largest Nepali organization in the US, ANA has accumulated a lot of fixed assets amounting to few million US dollars. Now, with the future of the organization under question, the assets need to be scrutinized before it becomes a playing ground of the few priviledged.
When ANA was formed, the number of Nepalis were a handful so it made sense for ANA to become a central organizing body to hold convention for this handful of people. Now even a small city has more Nepalis than at that time. It is now time to shift the focus to more local events and reigional conventions. What ANA could do is have a decentralized presence and support more local events and interactions than hold one converence a year - the executions of which have been failing, disorganized and incompetent to say the least - mostly due to lack of leadership and guidance.
2011 ANA Convention was to be held at Denver Colorado, but ANA has recently made a press release announcing this year's ANA convention to be held in Washington DC. It is a known fact that organizers of Denver, Colorado had major reservations partnering with the ANA after witnessing the bitter partnership with the organizers from Boston. The fact that they had to resort to organizing the ANA at their home turf shows that they were not capable of capturing any interest from any of the plentiful Nepali organizations spread across the United States. Observers have noted that pretty soon ANA would be lucky to end up serving the VA/MD/DC area in the future if they are not able to regain the trust of Nepalis residing the US.
ANA used to be the only influencial Nepali organization in the the US as a whole, but this influence is gradually slipping away due to the incompetence and personal agenda displayed within it's core committee.
At this point, there is a panic within it's central committee because of the accounting abnormalies haunting them from the Boston convention. Observers have noted that the Boston convention abnormalties are just a tip of the iceberg. As the largest Nepali organization in the US, ANA has accumulated a lot of fixed assets amounting to few million US dollars. Now, with the future of the organization under question, the assets need to be scrutinized before it becomes a playing ground of the few priviledged.
When ANA was formed, the number of Nepalis were a handful so it made sense for ANA to become a central organizing body to hold convention for this handful of people. Now even a small city has more Nepalis than at that time. It is now time to shift the focus to more local events and reigional conventions. What ANA could do is have a decentralized presence and support more local events and interactions than hold one converence a year - the executions of which have been failing, disorganized and incompetent to say the least - mostly due to lack of leadership and guidance.