HELLO NEPAL

Is lockdown only the solution? We are facing another one week lockdown in the Kathmandu valley beginning Bhadra 4, 2077 (Aug.20/2020) to control rapid spread of COVID 19. Soon after easing three months lockdown, movement of vehicle and people from tarai and other parts of the country to the valley increased uncontrollably without taking any precautionary measures from the government concerned offices. Also the local people were not following simple safety measures to avoid virus infection. As a result, the number of infected persons started rapidly increasing in the valley and elsewhere in the country.  According to the health experts, the government did not make any effort to increase tests, contract tracing and establish required number of proper quarantine, increase isolation wards and ventilators in order to face the possible worst situation during the three months lockdown. That is why; simply imposing lockdown for an indefinite period may not be effective to con...

Sharing old memories    This is just to share my old memories while I was working with the Swiss funded Rural Health Development Project back in 1995 to 2005. I had led a team of project staff for a study tour to observe Sarvodaya Movement program in Sri Lanka.  Visited a school run by Sarvodya Shramadana Movement  With Dr. A.T Aryaratne Founder of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement  Attending briefing session about the Sarvodaya Sgramadana Movement  with the project team   Enjoying sea beach morning walk in Colombo Handing over a souvenir to Movement Coordinator About Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne founded Sarvodaya in 1958, when he established the concept of Shramadana (“Sharing of one’s Time, Thoughts, Labor and Energy”); gathering volunteers to come together and build a road in an impoverished rural village of Sri Lanka. Today, t...

Sluggish governments   When the government and its concerned authorities, be at the local, provincial or at the central level, do not feel responsible, sensible and accountable to the people's plight and failed to timely act, many innocent people lose their lives as the many village people in Golche Lidi village in Jugal Rural Municipality-2, Sindhupalchok district lost their lives during the recent landslide.  The Oli led government has totally failed in two fronts at this time, one: in the handling of dreadful corona virus situation and the other: in minimizing the effect of natural calamities on human casualties and destruction of human settlement. Had it taken prompt action showing its seriousness to address the hardships of the people, the natural disaster could have been avoided or minimized.  Shame on the government who does not hesitate to claim to be the strongest two thirds majority government in the political history of Nepal. ‘We had...