Nepal and child mortality

We are provided with the lots of funds via US AID and other INGOs for prevention and awareness of epidemics like HIV, AVIAN INFLUENZA. But 50,000 children are died each year with poor health and sanitation. those who are left alive starve with hunger alarming in another developmental index, that 505 percent of them are malnourished. and 80% of woman or mother are anemic. who is caring for them??

SEE THE STATS OF NEPAL

Been so happy to see these statistics though Nepal has occupied just 0.03% of Asia and 0.003% or world

Serial Bomb Blast in Kathmandu

September 2, 2007
(Kathmandu)
The serial bomb blast in 5 different places at today 4:15 pm killing 2 people and 25 people injured. But when I saw the news on the television: I felt more than 2 people were killed, as the micro bus was turn into trash. I don't think that just 2 persons were dead in that incident. When all the student are returning from the school and many were returning from their office, and all the incident were happened in the crowded location, in one of the channel I saw that one of the young student hardly 12 year old was lying dead on the road. Nobody took the responsibility for that blast. I was so shocked I couldn’t do anything aftermath of that incident.
I always take pride in my country for being peace zone, as this kind of incident is like news from Afghanistan or Iraq whenever I hear but it is happened in the heart of peace zone scattering everything and everybody into the pieces. They took it as an political issue but these fatalities is loss of all the norms and values of humanity, no matter it occurred in Tel Aviv or in Kathmandu but hurt most it happened in your own motherland. Mother, Where are we blowing? And I have to ask once again, Mother should I trust the government?

Brain drain

Brain drain is the probably the biggest pain today for Nepal. Each and everyday, many people mostly the most productive group of people i.e. youth and skilled man power. Though they bring home lot of remittance but when they come home they have nothing beside complaints about the country. With in this 12 years of people's war about 13 thousands people of 15 - 35 years old all energetic and productive having lots of guts and brains that can be utilized for the country. But being the world's one of most unemployed country we've got nothing besides relying upon the third grade job no matter how much educated the person is, no matter how much efficient he is . ha! my country with pain of it's own.

My Favourite Nepali Model: Priyanka Karki

Boat Boat everywhere not a single one to row

Yesterday evening me and Rabin, a friend of mine went to Nagpokhari, there was a festival of Nagpanchami is happening with heavy crowd with lots of fun and feast. One friend of mine, who had install the counter for the rowing the boat over Nagpokhari, it costs around 20 nepali rupees, I asked him for a one ride on it and he willingly invited me and didn’t charged me a single rupee. There were around 3 rafting boats and I asked him that how much he earned that day. He replied it’s around 2 thousands rupees but half than the previous day and said wish that fest last for more days so that he could earn good sum of money with the help of three rafting boat. He added he had to pay 500 for each boat as rent. I wished him luck and returned home. Turned on TV and flash in news read that “ more than 8 thousands family is homeless due to flood, no food supply or any kind of medical help due to lack of boat” I remembered “The boat”. Won’t that rafting boat kept for fun help. To make people happy is good what if we can make others live. Those boats waiting for customer (now I say those who pays to row it for fun) will surely sustain many lives who had be deprived of daily basic necessities in Terai. No matter how much donation we collect in different form if we can’t take it to right place at right time it’s of no use. So I request all those collectors of donation to buy some boats so that their help goes to the respective family on time other wise…………. I know you guys will start another event in the name of flood victims. Beware and be on time….

Socially exclued group: Women

Abrham lincoln abolished the slavery of african from the americans ; the discrimination between just colour of the skin; black and white, between two races i.e. Americans and africans. But races in Nepal has different faces, culturally diverse ethnic groups and started the battle with arms and troops. Now the People's war is over. Did we really win the battle against racism? In the context of Nepal, the women are still one of the socially excluded groups. Nepali women are imprisioned in the four walls of house. Though there are some women who'd reached to the pinnacle of success and gained name and fame for themselves but the majority of females are underprivilleged. their misfortune starts from early childhood, most of the girl child are kept away from school; even lacks primary education when they grow little older, they are responsible for all the household works including gathering food for family and fodder of fawn. They are never taken as family rather unpaid servant for all of their life. They are not allowed to make major decision like giving birth which is directly concerned with their health.
Women here are victimes of domestic violence and traffiking due to lack of awareness and education. Some of them who are luck enough are hospitalized to mental ward of some government hospitals and those who lack the luck are sold in the brothels of red light area of Bombay. The worst thing happened to those trafficked women who are rescued are already infected with HIV, on returning to Nepal with the help of some human rights organization are said to be rehabilitated but they are treated as living dead.
When I think about all this, one of sayings said by girl beats the eardrum " Donot born as girl in Hills and as bull in Terai region of Nepal" In my view this is the only yardstick that can measure how hard they work, All work no play.

Labor pact between UAE and Nepal

An estimated 150,000 Nepalese are working in the UAE. Nepal Government and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a labor pact that will protect the rights of Nepalese working in the UAE. The pact makes the Nepalese laborers eligible to receive salary and benefits at par with workers of other countries, in addition giving them legal recognition and protection. This pact was signed between visiting UAE labor minister Dr Ali Bin Abdullah Al-Kaabi and Nepal's State Minister for Labour Ramesh Lekhak. It’s really a great news that hits the tabloid for whole month. And this was the first labour pact signed between a gulf country and Nepal. I really appreciate this memorandum of understanding that would ensure the safety, prevent them from being exploited, right to minimum wage and have legal rights. Year by year, day per day many Nepalese both skilled and non-skilled workers are moving to the gulf countries with the dreams of their golden future in their eyes. Though it can be viewed as brain drain or loss of production, or may not have any effect on gross domestic products but surely improved the country’s economy via remittance, the country which does not have its own industry to work. I was always against the working of people but there are no other alternatives. How long can people rely upon the same acres of land where as the family members and feeding mouths are constantly increasing. How long the country can bear the load of educated but unemployed population. The only way out of this landlocked country is gulf country, never been colonized by any other nations but always been workers for other country.

There’s lot to cry upon Nepal but still this pact has some impact to put on a smile in their face after years of their work over gulf country

Garbage management in Kathmandu, Now and Then

Kathmandu valley is not only the fusion of prehistoric culture and modern lifestyle but also stands the main trade and administrative center of Nepal. Though the efforts are paid for the development of this natural and cultural heritage Kathmandu but unmanaged urbanization and growing pollution stands as the fierce challenge. Being the capital city of country and only metropolis, Kathmandu is declared as municipality in 1920 A.D. and as metropolitan in 1996 A.D.
Garbage management in Kathmandu: As we walk down to the history lane, in ancient times civilians of this valley deploy the private sweepers or bury those garbage are dumped into the courtyard of own compound and reused all the garbage. About 40 years ago, the citizen of this valley sells the garbage at the rate of Rs. 0.5 per tin as mention in the book “The Newars” written by Mr. Gopal Singh Nepali. At that times people realized the importance of garbage and its management but now irresponsibility by all the citizens, this garbage really been a headache of the metropolitan city like Kathmandu as the result of which municipalities have to invest great deal of resources and manpower.
80% of garbage produced is collected and managed by the participation of Kathmandu municipality and private sectors, and are dumped by the Bagmati River. Out of about 308 tons of garbage is produced daily only about 250 tons of it is collected and dumped with the help of 1264 manpower. Kathmandu municipality has various resources viz: Tractors-37, Hydraulic tripper-25, Dumper placer-15, Compactor-11, Roll-off tripper-2, loader-6, Dozer-2, excavator-2, Ship-footed compactor-1 with annual financial investment of NRs. 14,90,00,000 (about US $ 24,03,225.80).
In order to elevate people’s participation, the kathmandu municipality has also mobilized the community in distribution of composting box, training in vermiposting and distribution of required materials, establishment of community recycling center, mobilized civilian volunteers and conduction of various programmes in national media.
Addition to that, to increase public awareness various exhibitions are also conducted. Every year awards and honor are given to individual, school and organization who has worked in this sector to motivate people. But still after all said and done, Kathmandu still has this problem, the city of thousand temples or city of dirt, what do citizens want think yourselves, if not you noone is going to clean it for you. Start thinking “My city, My responsibitlity".

Blogspot VS Kathmandu

Blogspot: The place where you are allowed to have your say, and have worldwide reader if they want to read. Time is mine, and time is money. Pour your thoughts and be relieved. All I want to be a just another blogger in town: talking bout his views with different perspective welcome all kind of positive and negative comments. Inspired by my fellow blogger I initiate this step and I found it very wonderful. In this era of cyber technology, it is the means of spreading your thoughts, vision, and views; and I know I missed the earlier train. Now, I am consoling myself better to be late than never. I hope that my blog won't clog pipeline of this cyber world, being Nepali and borne in city of art Lalitpur and brought up in city of temple, I regard myself very fortunate as i got many more opportunities and facilities which millions of nepali is deprived of.

KATHMANDU: A place of Opportunities for valley outsiders and 76ers. If you're not Nepali for your kind information KATHMANDU is the capital city of NEPAL. And heard that some years back it is announced as metropolitan city, but being citizen of here, I don't think that government has done anything like that to make it up to the standard of any metropolis. The list of problem of Katmandu goes on as ever increasing immigrants though it may be national or international, Within these last decades, it has observed high volume of population increment giving rise to list of problem in kathmandu, from water supply to transportation. The rising numbers of vehicles are the main cause for this urban temperature arousal in this Shangri-La. In Kathmandu, people supply more, consume more, pollute more, and think of solution lesser. So, I want to suggest all the valley outsiders to think about it, love it or leave it.

My favourite Nepali model: Priyanka Karki

Royal Massacre: Black day in the history of Nepal

On June 2, 2001 on the normal morning, phone of our home rang, and caller id showed it was from Dubai; my big brother was on the other side of phone and he asked with perplexed voice “ is it sure that our king was dead?” My mother was puzzled and he woke me up and said “Saten, our king was dead with his family” I can believe what I’ve heard I turned the TV on and switched to the BBC news, the massacre of Royal family of Nepal (The breaking news) along with Bomb blast in one of the restaurant in Tel Aviv. I got so shocked the people were flocking to the streets of Kathmandu. Who did it? Why? Hundreds of questioned were raised and left unanswered for 3 days. It was said that Crown Prince Dipendra did because of dispute over the marriage. He shot his father, mother, sister, brother along with eight other. Unbelievable !!! so friendly…… so respectful ……… the Crown Prince gun fired the whole family. The whole situation was so dramatized that speaker of House of Representative turned speechless when question were fired by reporters and he appeared like kindergarten kid in front of the whole press. The situation was explained by Dr. Rajiv Shahi (so-called eye-witness). According to him, the automatic gun was fired by drunkPrince, killing all the attendants of dinner besides him. (Must have been magic). The king Birendra and the queen Aishwarya was declared dead, and crown prince was in coma for three days and announced as the next king. The mourners turned into the mob; shouting the slogan against the newly reigned king Gyanendra, who was said to be at Pokhara since no successor was left. No investigation was performed and we got our new king from back door of Royal palace. Since then it’s never been a monarchy, it turned into anarchy in Nepal.

YCL (young communist league or young criminal league)

YCL (young communist league or young criminal league)


I was happy to see that young cadre of YCL (sister organization of Nepal communist party (Maoist)) cleaning the roadsides and wonder what if all the youth of Nepal be the part of it. But the intimidation, vandalism, hostility and looting continues as if they don’t know the meaning of hard work. Cleaning the roadside with dirt in their heart doesn’t prove that they are up to the creation of neo-Nepal. The crime still continues no matter how hard they advocate for the peace and democracy. It’s the rule that war is never ended up with the peace. The blood they shed, the abduction they had done do not reveal that they are upto good thing, rather the extreme action they had posed in civilian is not viewed as deeds to be appreciate. No matter how hard they fight, the leader of their party is not different than previous one. They are after the seat in parliament just as every leader. I am not a person who speaks for other parties in country, I am just a civilian who wants to live the life as I want to, like to roam in any part of country. But it’s my fate that I can’t walk the way I want to walk, I am not allowed to talk what I want to speak. Though they shout they’ve freed us from the dictatorship of the shah dynasty, but still dictatorship rules in the heart of Kathmandu, I am saying this because I was not allowed inside the funeral ceremony of my friend’s mother while they are having cremation of their cadres. The way they yelled at me, make me to have my say in this cyber world. Just want to tell those cadres of YCL that I am just ordinary person doesn’t compel me to be against them. I want to remind them that did their leader speak a sentence about the sacrifices their youths had done during the 12-year-long People’s war or breathe the word of condolence when they have signed the document of compromise.

Crying for Nepal

As I browsing through internet sudden I just typed NEPAL and click the tab of search web I got about 110,000,000 hits and I browsed more and I found Nepal in the list of world’s most poorest countries, most unemployment rate and populated in the Asia. Nepal is the world of its own I can’t compare with the neighboring countries like India and China, the two super powers of the world. But I can’t deny those facts how long can we survive in the foreign aid and remittance from the brothers and sisters working abroad. If lists like human right violation, human trafficking, drug peddling are kept, then it’s for sure that Nepal will be in top ten. That’s too I can’t deny it’s happening. I don’t want any kind of help in this case; those so-called friend countries are to blame for the condition of Nepal, and on the top of that the corrupt politicians of the world who are never after the development of country. Ha! Me just like everybody can’t help myself shouting and yelling like just like other citizens. Poor me! They said don’t think what country did for you; think what you can do for your country. Right now I am just a student and my primary job is to study but how can I? The capital city is closed for more than 90 days with various different reasons. This year more than 30 school has been closed in the name of Bandas, and Chakka Jam. If it’s the way our country is moving then Buddha should take rebirth and the environment and mentality like this he is not going to get enlightment in this era. God Bless Nepal.

Kakakul Kathmandu

Kathmandu: A city of temples; a favourite answer for never asked question in the quiz contest held in Nepal. Kathmandu according to the myth, was once a lake and all the water was drained out by Manjushree and civilization commenced. From that very moment this valley never ran scarce of water supply as it has hundreds of Dhungedhara (stone tap), well and natural spring just enough to meet the daily consumption of inhabitants. The word Kakakul is the name of the bird that drink water by digging its beat deep beneath the riverbank and quench its thirst.
We people of Kathmandu are not different than that birds because we are surrounded by various sources of water around the valley still hoping that one fine day, Melamchi Project will quench our thirst and wash away our daily problem of drinking water. Like that bird turned the view of water, we never glanced around the water resources within our proximities, like Shivapuri, Godavari, Matatirtha, Ichangu, Bungamati, etc. These are just the name of few water resources used by our starred hotels of Kathmandu, all of them are natural springs.
The tankers of capacity 10KL-20KL are engaged transporting water whole day to meet the requirement of Hotels. What if the government establish the project of its own at small scale for water supply to its citizen. Drinking water has become a sprouting business in context of kathmandu. There are more than 50 different industries involved in bottling and delivering the water from various natural resources. If we calculate the jar or pet bottle n which the water is filled is much more expensive than water itself which we have to import from third countries.
Problem of drinking water won't remain as issue if our government manage the water resources around the valley and stop thinking about Melamchi project. It has already been proved in laboratories that most of these natural spring don't contain any type of microbes or harmful element like arsenic; instead they consist of beneficial minerals. So, why don't we try to turn this problem into the solution as we can export these bottled natural spring water to gulf country as we did to our brothers in order to get remittance.