This
unprecedented calamity has struck the country just ten year after the great
political revolution of 2062/63 BS and country has some signs to hope. We are
proud to our achievements, strong against exploitation and long patience to get
new constitution. A
country that was never colonized has
long been isolated, but its history and fate enter wined with the India and the
other powerful countries. We feel it and know it should not be this way, we
know things should be different.
So
much of the discussion has been about the emergency effort, about food and
water, now it’s starting to shift to long term planning. It’s time to think how to provide shelter to those left homeless
by the quake is becoming urgent with the approach of the country’s rainy
June/July where the central hemisphere’s upper belt is often battered by floods
and landslides. Second, we will need to explore options for low-cost housing,
rehabilitate physical infrastructure and reinstate schools and health posts.The question is how Nepal can
recover and be built back better than it was before.
Governance
Nepal
is a poor country long plagued by governance issue. Nepalese Bureaucrats and leaders were long
been blamed on their corrupted and traditional thinking. Nepal needs to improve governance by
empowering the bureaucrats and leaders. There is a hope that this could happen.
The government need space to lead but and this includes the ability to plan and
execute budgets (under close scrutiny, of course). Doing so will require
talented and accountable manager. The
leader having diamond like leadership characterstics definitely can lead
the country in this difficult situation and can be conductor of people's hope .
Diaspora
Perhaps
no country sends as large section of its workforce abroad as Nepal. The
Diaspora has always been one of the Nepalese economy’s most solid pillars; official
remittance inflows to Nepal reached 28.8% of GDP in 2013, which makes Nepal the
third largest remittance recipient in the world. Migrants remitted an estimated
US$5.9 billion to Nepal in 2014..
Now it is time to fully tap the skills and the resources of the Nepali Diaspora
in the reconstruction effort.
Business Environment
Prior
to earthquake, investment in Nepal was on the upswing. There was also growing
interest in promoting tourism. Empowering people and promoting self-sufficiency
by developing entrepreneurship through local levels is the key to sustainable
development. I
sincerely hope that business and tourism opportunities will rebound.
Diplomacy
Nepal
as “yam between two boulders” has also been facing lots of problems because of
inefficiency in diplomatic dealings. Both India and China are emerging economic superpower in coming years. Major
concern must be maintenance of balanced and fruitful economic diplomacy to gain
from emerging economic powers. Big markets are at doorsteps. There is some
opportunity for Nepal as a landlocked country.
In
addition to this, Nepal need to coordinate the global aid is essential.
Different countries are interested to join reconstruction effort of Nepal. Of
course, they have some interests but coordinating them tactfully by Nepalese leaders
is essential.
Indubitably,
we are severely affected, but we have to accept that creation and destruction
are the Will of the Almighty. Natural disasters like earthquake, floods,
landslides and lightening are frequent, causing colossal physical damages and
losses of human lives.But
the challenge now is to transform this devastation into an opportunity for
development. We have unique opportunity to get right. Now the challenges is to
make sure we are never in this situation again. It is difficult to think about
long term recovery given all the present suffering. Yet if we are to build a
better Nepal, we must. The
reality cannot be changed, but a better future can be built through our
positive mindset. Once the mindset of Nepalese changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
After Ten Year : "The Development must overshadow Grief" in Nepal.