HELLO NEPAL

It could have been much better for the senior political leaders to surrender to the sovereign people of Nepal saying that they completely failed to live up to their promises made to the people and save the nation from plunging into political and constitutional darkness and ask the people whether they would be willing to hand over their Naso to the former King rather than letting the Chief Justice & Co to run the country based on the pressure of foreign power.

19 February 2013 I think the gross negligence of NEA with regard to taking precautionary measures to save the water storage capacity of the Kulekhani reservoir from gradually decreasing in its size in recent years contribute towards increasing load-shedding hours. Were not there any kind of technical measures to prevent flowing of sand, mud, silt and boulders into the reservoir? Does NEA expertise lack the technical knowledge for avoiding such unwanted incidents?   During the initial years of its operation, it used to hold around 850.3 million cubic meters of water generating around 210.1 million units of power. Now, the water storage capacity has dropped to 590.9 cubic meters generating only 140 million units of power which ultimately has affected the overall power supply system. If the NEA does not take necessary measures to save the reservoir from decreasing its water storage capacity in time and does not pre-plan to avoid such power shortages, there seems that the ...

The Himalayan Times 18 February 2013 The government was forced to reverse its decision with regard to unscientific hiking the price of cooking gas. Thanks to collective protest made by the students’ union. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai led coalition government had tried to feel the nerves of the people by abruptly hiking the price as reported in “NOC jacks up LPG price by Rs. 630” (THT, 13 Feb. Page 1) . There must be big kickback involved in doing so considering the amount of price hike. It’s very sad to see the government’s anti-people working style that has hard hit the lives of the common people. The recent price increase in kerosene has already made the lives of the common people miserable. It was totally unjustifiable decision of the government to abruptly increase the price of LPG by Rs 630 without doing any proper homework for introducing dual cylinder systems in the market. What was the purpose of asking the consumers to collect the subsidized amount of Rs.550 from ...