HELLO NEPAL

The Himalayan Times 26 September 2019 Politics for development The number of political parties that mushroomed during the transitional phase got completely downsized following the three tiers of general elections held in accordance with the new constitution. The then UML and the NCP-Maoist fought the elections under an alliance and won almost two-thirds majority seats, pushing the Nepali Congress to the opposition bench. Other political parties also suffered heavily. However, some of them survived, securing lesser seats than they had gained during the CA elections.    But to the common people, it does not make difference which political party reaches the political helm, provided that they democratically run the nation, give good governance, abide by the constitution, respect human rights, punish the corrupt, maintain social and cultural age-old harmony, provide equal equity of the fruit of development, maintain proper law and order, generate job opportunity for

Enjoying a short term consultant job with a research project initiated in Nepal by the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP) formed under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh. Its aim is to identify the highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently responsible for the majority of pesticide suicides in selected sites in Nepal. Had a wonderful opportunity to interact with a number of pesticide vendors in Banke, Chitwan, Kavre and Kathmandu and to know about the pros and cons of pesticides. Nepal government has banned until now 21 HHPs which were very harmful to human health. There are still two more toxic pesticides, namely: Zinc Phosphide and Aluminium Phosphide, which are easily accessible and available in the pesticide shops and are being used for committing suicide. Hope the government will ban these two toxic pesticides in near future which will definitely help to reduce the number of pesticide suicide.

The Himalayan Times 19 September 2019 Improve performance Nepal should have been at this time politically strong, considering the presence of a two-thirds majority government in place in its almost seven-decade-long political history. None of the past governments had such a powerful mandate. This government has completed almost fifteen months with not much to show the people as critics are frequently putting forward their opinions. What is preventing this strong government in running the country with good governance? Why has this government been widely criticized? Why has this powerful government not been able to deliver even the minimum level of services to meet the people’s expectation? It is natural for the people to have high expectation from the government of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which was able to garner almost two-thirds of the votes in the last general election. However, it is losing its credibility day-by-day for its poor performance in