| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 01-Jun-02 09:30 PM
I was wondering why the person seems so important in the
Nepalnews.com 's right bottom corner? What is his contribution
to Nepal, to appear in Nepalnews.com for such long time?
Why? Is it paid advertisement section or its dedicated to the
writers in that section, or its a special case? What are the reasons?
What is his contribution to appear in that important front page?
Or, nepalnews.com is trying to introduce next Financial Minister,
after Mahat left Mr. Deoba?
He writes that Nepal has to be Federalized. Lets not forget that
Nepal is very small in size to make it federalized, less than size of
UP or Bihar state in India. Otherreason, Federalization, means
more govt. officers (in local and central), then, more corruption
because of too many red tapes. How many Nagar Palika today
are free of center's budget? KTM, Pokhara, Birgunj, and Biratnagar.
In such cases, how are they going to be really federal? How many
percentage will they be federal, whey they will not self sustaining
tax generation system i.e. industries or resources? Lets not
look at America, and think of introducing the 50 federal states in
such a small countries, where peoples will have trouble of having
complication due to differences in law, and economics or tax systems.
America or india is big, one state to antoher they have to travel
days, so they had justification of federal to smooth peoples life.
Even Japan, can not have self reliant local government, because
of concentrated industries in a few big cities and locals complain
that federal (localized) govt. is not really localized, except on those
big industralized cities. So, lets not borrow the concept, that
does not apply in our small country and with our foreign aid
based economy. I do not agree with the concept of federalization.
Thats completely useless in the context of Nepal. Lets see the
1million rupees to each village c. initiated by UML, where has that
free money gone? As long as we give free money (i.e. without local's
tax paid), no one is going to really bother how money comes and
how it is spent. Thus, centrally donated money in so called federal
govt. has no meaning, not really local, not really efficient, not really
applicable in the context of Nepal. Well, I have taken only one
course in economics in UG and one in Management and Public Adm.,
I have witnessed here for long what can happen when a local
govt. is incompetent resourcewise.
HG
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