Social Problem
After a long gap, I was able to read a very good social story in your magazine. One of the major problems the country is going to face is the problem of unemployment. You have rightly pointed out that the large number of unemployed youths will create many social and political problems in the country (Overseas Workers: Return to Misery Spotlight February 20- March 05 2009). It is very unfortunate to say that the country is encountering numbers of social, economical and political problems but our political leaders are busy to debate on constitution. When will they open their eyes?
Grishma Gurung
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Serious Debate
Although there are many lapses in the cover story (Overseas Workers: Return to Misery February 20 March 05 2009), it revealed a very serious problem the country has been facing right now. If the issue of unemployment does not get addressed properly, it is definite to trigger the social chaos and disorder. At a time when the global recession has already shown signs of global effect, Nepali workers, who are the prime sources of country’s political crisis, seem to be the next victim. The future of more than two million Nepali youths is now uncertain following the economic crisis. If a large number of workers return from foreign country, Nepal will be in no position to provide them jobs. The time has come now to think about these youths.
Binita Rai
Hong Kong
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Lucky few
It is very interesting to know that more than 400,000 youths enter annually into the employment market. But, only a few lucky fellows will get the jobs. With the upsurge of Maoist insurgency ten years ago, Nepal’s large number of industries have already been closed down and no one is showing any interest to establish new ones. As the country is in the process of constitution making, there is little hope for any new major projects to kick off. In this scenario, no one can expect that job will be created for youths.
Juni Shrestha
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Wrong Teaching
All the time what Nepal’s political parties taught the youths on how to destabilize the country? All the time the youths were pushed into the forefront of political troubles. Maoists have even encouraged youths to involve in crime. As the global economy requires most competitive manpower empowered with quality education, our political parties are spoiling the youths encouraging them to join their outfits. Some student leaders of major political parties get a lot of benefit at the cost of tens of thousands of others. For instance, Sher Bahadur Deuba became prime minister and Gagan Thapa is now a leader. Similarly, Dr. Minendra Rijal, Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat and few others are in political forefront. In CPN-UML, Shanker Pokharel, Yubaraj Gyawali, Yogesh Bhattarai and Rabindra Adhikary got the leadership position but overwhelming number of their followers are now in the streets. Likewise, some Maoist leaders like Prachanda, Dr. Baburam Bhattrai and Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal became leader but rest of the cadres are in the street with no skills to compete. The time has now come for all the political parties to give quality education to youtha so that they can compete in global market.
Bishnu KC
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Forms Of Government
Former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepali Congress leader Govinda Raj Joshi and constitutional lawyer Bipin Adhikary have rightly defended the parliamentary forms of government. I agree with Bipin Adhikary that Nepali people have long practiced the parliamentary form of government. Unlike executive form of government, the parliamentary form of government is better suited for Nepal. I would like to thank Bipinji for his strong and powerful views on parliamentary form of government. The executive form of government is like a dictatorial system where there is no provision for removal of the top executive. We need parliamentary system because it is a system where prime minister is directly accountable to the people.
Sudhir Shrestha
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