BABBLES
By Babbler
The first lot of the government-supported electric buses has already been handed over to the Sajha Bus Cooperatives. The then President Bidya Devi Bhandari travelled the Kathmandu city by riding the electric bus. Since then commoners have not seen those buses in the streets.
It is said that the Sajha Yatayat, due to the lack of charging stations, has kept the buses in the garage. This is indeed severe negligence and misuse of government property.
The buses did not arrive overnight. It took several months to arrive from the country where they were manufactured. Why the concerned authorities didn’t wish to install the charging stations on time along with sending the purchase order?
Until we introduce hard punishment laws and policies for misusing public property, such a practice will continue. Indeed, the officials are seen as hurry in procurement as there is the commission but there is no commission in operating busses and providing facilities to the commoners.
When donkeys bark
These days comedian couple Dhurmus and Suntali are crying in front of people saying that they are facing a difficult time as they are unable to pay several millions of loans that the couple had taken to construct a cricket stadium in Chitwan.
Personally, this Babbler appreciated the efforts made by the couple for constructing community houses and handing over the victims of the 2015 devastating earthquake.
After the grand success of such efforts, the couple jumped for constructing a cricket stadium in Chitwan. It was not only an ambitious project but also it was being constructed on the land belonging to the agriculture campus. Construction of a stadium in the area belonging to an educational institution of an agricultural country sound odd to this Babbler.
Maybe, if the stadium was constructed by the local body or the federal government or the sports clubs, it would be natural. But the comedian couple decided to do it which sounds like donkeys barking instead of dogs.
Local industries can never be flourished
There is no encouragement for local investors in running industries. The government is talking about exporting electricity below the production price but never talks about supplying electricity to the local industries at a subsidized price.
When we import books from foreign countries, we should not pay tax but if we import paper for publishing books, we should pay tax.
If we import rice in plastic bags, there is no tax but if we import plastics for rice packing, we need to pay tax.
Having such negative policies, one cannot think about industrializing the country.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
- Am I the only one who finds it amusing to see that a person who has been declared a corrupt person by the court and faced jail, tweets calling others regressive!
Sharad Raj Pathak
- Keep it written that most of the civil servants and central-level leaders migrate to countries like Europe, Australia, and America, where their children are living there with citizenship, and green cards. They have hidden the wealth earned by corruption in Nepal in these countries.
Dhruba Paudel
- We finished the Tribhuvan International Airport by transporting gold, we finished the Tribhuvan University by locking it, we finished the factories by organising strikes, we tarnished the image of the police by introducing the suitcase system in transfer and promotion, and we finished the court by infiltrating party workers.
Nirmal Prasai
- What federalism did for the nation?
Did it stop the migration of people from villages to cities?; did it stop people going abroad for dirty jobs?; did it stop corruption?; did it stop black marketing?; have education and health become accessible for the commoners?; did it create job opportunities?; did it control market price?; did it stop looting the country?; did it establish good governance?
If there is no answer to these questions, why and for what federalism is?
Omkumar Thapa
Almost 39 thousand families are dependent on candles (Tuki). When will electricity be provided to those industries being operated in 753 municipalities? Why is the idea of industrialization of the country by providing electricity facilities not coming when the government is talking only about selling electricity to India?
Ratna Sansar Shrestha
- I have curiosity that if the king had not raised the question of India’s double standards on cross-border terrorism at the SAARC summit in Bangladesh and instead of proposing China for a SAARC observer he would have expressed the commitment to putting a seal on the citizenship bill that his brother King Birendra had not approved and also expressing commitment for not buying arms from any third country other than India, what would be our political scenario today?
Anar Singh Karki
- For what drastic change occurred? If people of all ideologies are ready to stay together in the government, then the panchayat was right. The country has been robbed. Everyone involved in such a robbery must be punished. The country is crying. The people are dying of hunger. The country has fallen into the hands of worthless people. They all are guided by foreigners. Unfortunate!
Dr Rambhakta Thakur
- Nepali Congress is losing relevance. Has Congress accepted the government decision of distributing billions from the state fund to the workers of a particular party?
Dambar Khatiwada
- Instead of distributing 9 billion rupees to the Maoist workers, let’s resume 9 closed industries, 9000 people directly and 90000 people indirectly get employment.
Now, the country building is more important than worker building.
Jack Grealish
- A gift of the republic:
Uncontrolled price hike; unemployment; rampant conversion of religion; the collapse of the educational system; inclining poverty; increasing foreign interference; increasing foreign debts; the collapse of industries; increased number of parliamentarians; increased number of ministers; the rise of frustration among the people; rampant corruption!
Narendra Bikram Chand
- Yamaraj (God of death): Do you have any last wishes?
A Nepali: I want to see the socialism of the Nepali Congress.
Yamaraj: You are a clever man, trying to become immortal!
Prabin Jung Thapa
- In an economy like Nepal, reducing the interest rate to a single digit is a policy to feed those rich people.
In a country where 20 per cent of business houses have occupied 80 per cent of debts and ordinary citizens do not have access to bank loans, the economy will not benefit from reducing interest!
Rameshwor Khanal
- The time has come to pay back the debt of the motherland. How long will we be silent? In 1990, when the king was encircled and the role of monarchy was limited, we remained silent. In 1995, when the armed insurgency was launched destroying the nation and killing innocent people, we remained silent; in 2001, when foreigners planted the place bloodbath, we remained silent; in 2006, when foreigners imposed the so-called loktantra, we remained silent. Finally, the foreigner’s agents declared republicanism, secularism and federalism, we remained silent and now the nation is on the verge of collapse.
How long should we remain silent?
Sarbesh Aryal
- It is said that the cases of transitional crime cannot be prosecuted as the peace process has not ended.
But those people who died during the transitional period have been declared martyrs just recently. The logic is hard to understand.
Nilamber Acharya
- At the height of the movement, the King accepted whatever the parties said following the “gentleman agreement”. But the parties betrayed the “gentleman agreement”.
Rabindra Mishra
- In the past eight months, a trade loss of 9.5 trillion rupees has been recorded. During this period, we have imported only 22 billion worth of vegetables. It seems that this is a sign of a very serious economic crisis. The relevant bodies, officials, and experts, should find a way to reduce the trade loss as soon as possible and implement it.
Bhimarjun Acharya
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