brain drain in Nepal

If you walk around putalisadak area of kathmandu and just strech your head little then you will be able to see myriad of huge boards that make it seem as if you have come to a different city, or even a different country. The boards are full of ads for visa preparation, SAT, TOEFL,GRE, GMAT and other test preparations that many of us might not have even heard. What would be the reaction of a normal Nepali youth who has to pass along them as many educational institutes are also in that area. Day after day, the youth might be filled with desire to give a try and also might think that his dreams lies in one of those buildings.
The consultancies are mushrooming like new parties in nepal and this is an evidence for the trend of Nepalese youths going abroad for higher education which is on a all time high.
It seems more youths want to study abroad than in this country even though they might have to sell their properties and work like a dog in a foreign country, why?
Where does the fault lie?
Nepal is being drained of its skilled manpower every year. The cream of nepal, i mean the most talented ones are leaving Nepal for a higher education abraod and many of them vow not to return unless they make quite a hefty sum or till the situation here is favourable which is nowhere near. They are happy to work for others while the country needs them most...
Those who are abroad, they are making a living very well but what about handful of those who return? They are hardly finding the environment conducive here for anything. if they start business, they would not make profits as such due to frequent strikes and TAXES paid voluntarily to different groups of nepal. Also, obtaining license for a business is fraught with man hurdles and when the political situtation is so fragile, the processing could take few months to few years. Even to work as well,the atmosphere is hostile, the remote areas are still insecure and are ruled by local groups who extort certain percentages as their commission before any developmental works can be done. If the government works too are impeded by them, then the hurdles for private sectors are discernably immense. Many of them thus generally return back after few years or months seeing that nothing has improved and might not improve since the country is being played for quenching their individaul political interests.
Centralization is another big hurlde in the deveoplment of our nation. All of the ministeries are concentrated in the capital. Even for smaller governmental works, people have to come to the capital valley. You see, during my holiday, I went to Janakpur and I had a big trouble finding a good cyber for communicating with my college officers. The internet connection was really very very slow and also intermittent. I missed one of my college interview since I did not get to check my emails. It was then I realized being able to use quite fast internet in Kathmandu was indeed a liberty. I wanted to call my college admission officer but then I realized unlike Kathmandu where you see call abroad at Rs 2 per minute in every alternate street, Janakpur had none of those internet call system. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?
But this is the real situation outside the capital. Janakpus is quite a big town and yet it has none of the communication facilities that are so common yet so necessary . GPRS service provided my Spice Nepal really came in handy when I was in Kathmandu. I could check my emails at night,in the morning, in the bus, anywhere. But in Janakpur, the service was temporarily unavailable. Areas outside the capital cannot be developed unless the government decides to extend the facilities outside the capital. Everything should not be controlled from the capital.
so what can be done?
Government is mum on these issues of brain drain.... why?
I am really worried that it might soon be a really grave problem for the Nepalese nation. A month ago, while I was in Janakpur, I saw that my father's business did not have a single person to work. There were initially three staffs but one of them went to Malaysia, the other one started his small business and the third one came once in a blue moon since his brother had left for Arab and since his brother sent him money,he had stopped working........What a thinking?????
He continued to look for another staff but he could not find any even after continuously asking people of diferent village to see if there's someone unemployed in their village.......No one showed up till I came back to Kathmandu. I remember, 4-5 years back, youths from my villagers would come and request my father to employ them in our business even for meagre income and that they could do all kind of physcial labour. Still, since he had sufficient manpower, he would tell them that he could not do so at that time maybe sometime later, it might be possible. The situation is a lot different now. I am sure it's not because unemployment problem has been solved. It still looms large. We have already started seeing signs of lack of labours and workers and soon, it might become so severe that they might be paid more here than in the Middle-East countries.......who knows?


P.S. The internet service in Janakpur is quite good these days and the internet phone call service too has been introduced. Some positive developments to cheer me up. I hope the same is the trend in other towns too.

Is madhes problem solved?

it was a historic event re......
the same thing was said when the govt had struck a deal with the madhesi janadhikar forum
but happened eventualy, everyone knows
who is going to believe them this time
As a madhesi, i believe these leaders are not fighting for us madhesis
no one fights for others.......they fought for power and money which they might have got during those talks
see the maoists, they say they have fought a peoples' war......have they?.......who was it who suffered the most?.......people of Rolpa had it worst in my view
similarly, in the madhes andolan, it was the people of madhes who suffered the most.......all businesses closed......no transportation.......no income nothing......nothing to eat except for the lathis of the police
and while people were getting beaten and bullets fired through them, the madhesi leaders were having a 'chiyapan karyakram' in Baluwatar.
how can madhesi people be so dumb?