Posted by: Geology Tiger February 3, 2012
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I don't think there is any alternative way to settle down the current political turmoil of Nepal without agreeing on ethnic federalism. We blindly supported political parties for mutiparty system aganist monarchy, we blindly supported maoist for whatever political system against multiparty system and residual monarchy, and now we are blindy supporting this model of ethnic federalism. Everytime we did this with high expectation of massive change in our economic status but the result was void. This time also we are doing the same thing for the same resaon but under the different banner name. And this is not going to get out of people's head until they see no significant change in their life standard.
1. I never understand how it wil be example of inclusive federalism when you are going to build a state in the name of one particular ethnic group? How it will be inclusive state for rest of ethinc groups? And how can you guarantee that other ethnic groups will not feel insecure?
2. If you are reserving positions for ethinic groups and minorites in every governemnt office, how this is going to be fair for other applicants who have better academic and technical skills? Is it going to be good example of so called inclusive system if you are not taking any highly qualified person in the office just because he/she is not from certain ethnic groups? Are you going to create efficient bureaucracy by recruiting people from ethnic groups and minorities even they don't meet the required qualifications? I never understand why they don't believe on educating people at first and then getting them trained before hiring. I have seen enough examples of 'if you are opening any industry or any plant in our area then you have to take care of everything for us'.
3. I am not sure what is the criteria for that 2nd model of federalism but I don't think by grouping bunch of present day districts based on geographic proximity will give us better model. Is this model prepared based on the distribution of economic resources? How will you balance the uneven distribution of economic resources in Nepal so that each and every state will have financial independency to implement whatever development plan they want?
It doesn't matter how many arguments I present against ethinc federalism or even against federalism. The bottomline is polictical deadlock of Nepal is not going to end unless the ethnic federalism is given. नपढेका भेडाहरु भन्दा पढेलेखेका भेडाहरु झन् एकोहोरो हुदारहेछन. However, this model of federalism is not going to last for long. This will definitely suffer from another major revolution.
1. I never understand how it wil be example of inclusive federalism when you are going to build a state in the name of one particular ethnic group? How it will be inclusive state for rest of ethinc groups? And how can you guarantee that other ethnic groups will not feel insecure?
2. If you are reserving positions for ethinic groups and minorites in every governemnt office, how this is going to be fair for other applicants who have better academic and technical skills? Is it going to be good example of so called inclusive system if you are not taking any highly qualified person in the office just because he/she is not from certain ethnic groups? Are you going to create efficient bureaucracy by recruiting people from ethnic groups and minorities even they don't meet the required qualifications? I never understand why they don't believe on educating people at first and then getting them trained before hiring. I have seen enough examples of 'if you are opening any industry or any plant in our area then you have to take care of everything for us'.
3. I am not sure what is the criteria for that 2nd model of federalism but I don't think by grouping bunch of present day districts based on geographic proximity will give us better model. Is this model prepared based on the distribution of economic resources? How will you balance the uneven distribution of economic resources in Nepal so that each and every state will have financial independency to implement whatever development plan they want?
It doesn't matter how many arguments I present against ethinc federalism or even against federalism. The bottomline is polictical deadlock of Nepal is not going to end unless the ethnic federalism is given. नपढेका भेडाहरु भन्दा पढेलेखेका भेडाहरु झन् एकोहोरो हुदारहेछन. However, this model of federalism is not going to last for long. This will definitely suffer from another major revolution.