Posted by: kailoketa May 25, 2012
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Kiddo,
Bhutan is shit 'cos the king and his cohorts introduced a sham of a democracy, and the rest of the world was too busy lapping up the transition, even though the transition was fake (which constitution in the world says you can throw out monarchy by a 2/3rd majority? You guessed it right - Bhutan!). In this regard, I would say Nepal is ahead by a million miles.
But what I disagree with you is, Bhutan does not have power outages. PERIOD. I don't know where you get that kind of information.
Now, don't get me wrong. I did not say all areas in that weird country have electricity. If i said that, I would be lying. Because wiring up the rural areas using expensive transmission lines was deemed uneconomical, they have local alternatives - small-scale hydropower stations, scattered all over. And they function as planned. In fact less than 7% of current power production levels is enough to cover Bhutan's entire electricity needs, but the cost of transmission lines would render its coffers dry, so it gave up the impractical idea of transporting electricity to its own masses.
Remember, nothing in Nepal functions as planned. That is where we differ. We fail to execute our plans to perfection. Bhutanese execute plans immaculately (example, look how neatly they kicked out its own citizens of nepali-ethnicity).
Small plants cater to cluster of homes. But not all areas have these systems. But that is not the same as having a power grid that has no flowing electricity (as in Nepal).
There are lot of other good things that will never ever happen in Nepal, cos we are different people. And that is where lot of goodies end in that country.
No factories, no big-plants to hire people, no big education system, few universities.
It exports power to India, something Nepal can only dream about, even as our rivers plunder the plains and water goes to waste. You can argue that is shit again (why export when your masses have no electricity, but lot of rice from our Terai goes to India, why not send it to soodoor paschim where food scarcity makes headlines once a year, if not more?)
We are unique and nice in our own ways and we don't have to compare our advances with theirs. They are good in somethings, but we are excellent in others.
But on the electricity front, they are a zillion miles ahead of us.
And a few years back, the present king re-wrote the Indo-Bhutan treaty and scrubbed out all the British-era agreements that gave India an upperhand in interfaring with the Bhtuanese affairs. Our Girija babu and all others tried renewing our treaties with India and we all know what happened.
But with all that being said, we are who we are and we stand prouder, taller and accomplished. We are busy sowing the seeds of freedom and democracy, no matter how noisy and messy we look. Soon we will have a robust foundations of equality and democracy. Those in Bhtuan are welcome to dream!
Bhutan is shit 'cos the king and his cohorts introduced a sham of a democracy, and the rest of the world was too busy lapping up the transition, even though the transition was fake (which constitution in the world says you can throw out monarchy by a 2/3rd majority? You guessed it right - Bhutan!). In this regard, I would say Nepal is ahead by a million miles.
But what I disagree with you is, Bhutan does not have power outages. PERIOD. I don't know where you get that kind of information.
Now, don't get me wrong. I did not say all areas in that weird country have electricity. If i said that, I would be lying. Because wiring up the rural areas using expensive transmission lines was deemed uneconomical, they have local alternatives - small-scale hydropower stations, scattered all over. And they function as planned. In fact less than 7% of current power production levels is enough to cover Bhutan's entire electricity needs, but the cost of transmission lines would render its coffers dry, so it gave up the impractical idea of transporting electricity to its own masses.
Remember, nothing in Nepal functions as planned. That is where we differ. We fail to execute our plans to perfection. Bhutanese execute plans immaculately (example, look how neatly they kicked out its own citizens of nepali-ethnicity).
Small plants cater to cluster of homes. But not all areas have these systems. But that is not the same as having a power grid that has no flowing electricity (as in Nepal).
There are lot of other good things that will never ever happen in Nepal, cos we are different people. And that is where lot of goodies end in that country.
No factories, no big-plants to hire people, no big education system, few universities.
It exports power to India, something Nepal can only dream about, even as our rivers plunder the plains and water goes to waste. You can argue that is shit again (why export when your masses have no electricity, but lot of rice from our Terai goes to India, why not send it to soodoor paschim where food scarcity makes headlines once a year, if not more?)
We are unique and nice in our own ways and we don't have to compare our advances with theirs. They are good in somethings, but we are excellent in others.
But on the electricity front, they are a zillion miles ahead of us.
And a few years back, the present king re-wrote the Indo-Bhutan treaty and scrubbed out all the British-era agreements that gave India an upperhand in interfaring with the Bhtuanese affairs. Our Girija babu and all others tried renewing our treaties with India and we all know what happened.
But with all that being said, we are who we are and we stand prouder, taller and accomplished. We are busy sowing the seeds of freedom and democracy, no matter how noisy and messy we look. Soon we will have a robust foundations of equality and democracy. Those in Bhtuan are welcome to dream!
Last edited: 25-May-12 04:00 PM