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| Copyright issue in exam answer sheet (
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Recently a news was published ("Uchcha Madhyamic Shikshya Parisad le Prashna Patra Pustak Prakashan Garne", Samaya Samaj Weekly, 4 February 2008) with the information that the Higher Secondary Education Council (HSEC), Government of Nepal is going to publish a book for students of Higher Secondary Level compiling the answer sheets of the students who scored highest in the exam. According to the news, HSEC will publish the answers written by the students in their respective subjects for particular questions in that book. Mr. Ram Sagar Yadav, Vice-Controller of Examination, HSEC said that in course of publication of the book, HSEC will select the answer sheets belonging to topmost students who scored higher marks in the respective subjects. Those answer sheets will be put forward to the Subject Committee which will finalize the paper after making consultation with specialists of the respective field. However, the Subject Committee has no provision of involving students whose answer sheets are going to be published. The Committee has not deemed it necessary to take consent of the students to publish their answer sheets. It means that there will be no reference about wherefrom that answer sheet has been taken and who is the writer? The book will contain the answers without the name of student who has answered the question. Neither HSEC has regarded the issue of the copy right while publishing the answer sheet nor has it thought of providing remuneration to those students. The copyright will, obviously vested to the HSEC on the published book.
Answer sheet of students is considered to be the original literary work under the copyright law. The law provides economic as well as moral rights to those students whose answer sheets are going to be published including right to be named as author. Copy right law protects an original work of the creator for his/ her whole life and even after fifty years of creator"s death. The copyright in original literary work will last after fifty years from the first day of following year of the year of author’s expire.
Therefore, issues to be raised are:
1 Whether the students have copyright on there answer sheet or not?
2 Whether the HSEC can do such things that contravene the copyright of the students?
3 Whether students should get reasonable remuneration from publication of their answer sheet by the HSEC?
4 What will be the impact of such activities in the field of education, culture, and copyright as well as to those students whose work is going to publish by HSEC?
5 Is it public issue or personal one?
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| Posted by:
Rajkumar Suwal on 2/24/2008 1:24:48 AM |
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| Statements of Foreign Diplomats and UN Office was before time: Supreme Court’s urgent review of House Dissolution case might open the way out of present stalemate (
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| Nepal has been at real political crossroad to forward. As I wrote in my previous note, Nepalese people have historically been able to move forward to democracy, they are not as naïve as many people think. The current movement is the most popular one, and shows that people are committed to fight for freedoms till the sustainability of democracy is not ensured. The king’s urge to SPA to nominate prime minister and the declaration that the executive power has been returned in accordance with Article 35 of the Constitution cannot lead the political movement towards transformation of the present crisis.
Regretfully, it was unusual to hear congratulatory notes from missions of various countries towards the announcement of the King. It would be a great courtesy and sympathy towards Nepali people if ambassadors of many friendly countries had waited couple of hours to observe what they had to say. While we do not suspect the international community’s intention and firmly believe that they would be supporting Nepal’s democratic aspiration, however, the rush to appreciate the king’s efforts blatantly justified this reluctance to work with democratic forces.
Over the last one and half years, democratic institutions have been fully destroyed or paralyzed. Regional and zonal commissions have been appointed. Several Constitutional bodies have been filled with ‘hypocrites’ and henchmen of the former draconian system. Hundreds of ordinances have been imposed upon the people. In this absolutely bizarre situation, how the new cabinet would function? Would not be such a government an instrument to legitimize the illegitimate government? In absence of parliament, is there anything the proposed government can do democratically? The Nepalese history of democracy would have been collapsed. The international community failed to consider about piles of garbage of generated by the authoritarianism in the one and half year. The appointment of the prime minister as indicated by the king would be catastrophic to the democracy of Nepal, as it is bound to fail without massive changes and solution of the present crisis.
The King in the past has activated the Article 127 to pose and depose Prime Ministers. The present announcement does not nullify the prospect of use of the Article. Most importantly, in absence of the parliament, any government whether under Article 35 or not, is entirely dependent for laws on the ordinances, and the king has the final authority to issue such ordinances. Obviously, any government under the king’s present announcement is to seek support or command for running administration of the nation. As a matter of fact, it is not the SPA’s government but the King will wield the powers. The announcement is thus not a major change in the past situation. The international community is looked for by the Nepalese people to help them in their genuine mission to consolidate democracy and rule of law, which is a primary requisite to address the Maoist insurgency. It is now a clear message also to the Maoists that the force which can dare to fight the king’s army can fight against the Maoists too. It is not possible for Maoist to ignore the people’s strength. The present movement for democracy shows a deep rooted faith and commitment of the people to the democracy, and it implies that the Nepalese people are not ready to surrender to One Party Authoritarian Rule of Maoist. They have to learn lesson from this surge of democratic faith of people. Now it is a right time to address the problem, and Nepalese people can do that. For this they need strong moral support of the international community, at least neutrality. Any act to praise or appreciate the illegitimate government would spoil the peaceful movement.
It has been seen that right after the international community appreciation of the king’s announcement, the police brutality in the street has been intensified. On Sunday, 23rd April, the security force even did not allow people gather in ring road, and indiscriminate firings took place. The morale of the government seems to have been boosted up with a conviction that the movement would cease obtaining further support of the international community. If things continue like that, the suppression of movement on Wednesday, in which SPA leaders are going to address, will be intensified and tragic events might arise. We therefore urge to international community to precisely understand the situation and help Nepal to come out of crisis. While in the past the leadership has made serious problems in all aspects of governance, it does not mean that the leadership is entirely foolish. The SPA leadership has a history sacrifice and hard works for restoration of democracy. Most importantly, hundreds of intellectuals and analysts have been working in close contact with them. The leadership has learned maturity from mistakes, and has developed a culture of respecting the people voice. It would therefore be naive to suspect that they cannot make prudent decisions.
We see Nepal has a bright future. It is marching to end the crisis and consolidate itself to a matured nation state.
The reinstatement of the House of Representatives along with the renouncement of the Executive Power by the king can open a way to end of crisis. The international community can press the king to agree to the need of reinstating the House of Representatives. If the king disagrees, it is now on the part of the people to urge the Supreme Court to immediately review the petition of the HR dissolution case and give a verdict respecting the people’s choice. The revival of the House from the Supreme Court will largely help the country to move towards the end of crisis. The 1990 Constitution is still functional and under its authority the SC can give a way out to the crisis. The political leadership and legal professionals have to see this option seriously. The Supreme Court should not be marred by its stereotyped formalism when the country and its democracy are under crisis. The intelligentsia of the country should think it seriously. Clearly speaking there are two options for restoration of the HR. One, the King in consultation with the SC can declare the restoration of the House. If the king is not active to this solution, the SC can schedule the hearing of the review petition urgently and reinstate the House. The political leadership is urged to see this option as well. The international community can play role to clear the way to this direction.
(by Assoc. Prof. Yubaraj Sangroula, KSL) |
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Yubaraj Sangroula on 4/24/2006 2:13:29 PM |
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| After King"s Proclamation ? (
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| Yesterday the King, as he proclaimed, “returned the executive power to the people” and called upon the seven political parties to come up with a name of the prime minister. After 16 days of painstaking protest and loss of numerous lives it was not something we the people were expecting at this moment.
Here it is very necessary to understand that these recent demonstrations across the country are first of its kind after 1990’s peoples’ revolution. Even though of late we have been having lots of demonstrations but those demonstrations were merely driven by the political parties and their self-interest, which is very evident when we recall some of the political parties such as Nepali Congress (Democratic) and UML who agreed to form a government after the identical call just as of tomorrow, from the King. But the number of people in the streets and their commitments and willingness of the people to interrogate the Nepalese history and in that, the past and future role of the Monarchy in Nepal has meant that it is the people who are in the control of the proceeding in Nepal at this moment. It is not the political parties who are driving the emotions that all Nepalese share at this moment. So it is irrelevant whether political parties would agree with the King or not, the real question here is whether both political parties as well as the King is ready to acknowledge the people’s will at this moment or not. In this regard political parties seem to have an edge over the King as they themselves have rallied behind the people in these recent demonstrations. And the King’s Proclamation, which has totally disregarded the people and their will, has not help the matters. The King has still failed to acknowledge the strength and demands of the people, he simply wants the nation to be pre-February 1 2005, which by no means acceptable to the people of Nepal. Pre-February 2005 Nepal was not Democratic, People centric, Human Rights sensitive and Peaceful it was again Dictatorial, Violent and Grossly Negligent State. So King’s proclamation simply kills a new evil and germinates the older one, which can never be accepted.
U.S and India have been a great help for Nepalese in these difficult days, but by welcoming the king’s proclamation they are in a danger of ruining all their good works. American and Indian reaction to the proclamation seems premature and unreasonably very hasty. U.S and India if really want peace and democracy, thriving in Nepal then they should understand the aspiration of people and don’t be distracted by the lofty pronouncement of King whose acts always induces suspicion and ultimately sorrow for Nepalese.
Among all these problems and criticism, it is not that the solution to the problem in not there to find. Actually what we need and want at this moment is Unflinching Democracy and Sustainable Peace. Democracy in today’s term may be Constitutional monarchy or Republic, which should not be judge by anyone’s intuition and is not something that can be achieved whimsically, for that the peoples’ verdict is necessary. So the question of what form of democracy we need should be left for the people to decide. But for now we need as much as possible people’s voice in the government and it seems parliament restoration as demanded by the political parties is the best option we have at this moment. Because the demands of these demonstrations across the country boils into only one thing, that is, King should be ready to accept people’s verdict that his future in this country lies not on the constant peril but on the votes that we should have right to cast. Once King and all the political parties accept this and agree to this then only first of the two problems can be solved once for all.
Now for the next problem, that of establishment of Sustainable Peace, we have seen in these last 16 days people by the strength of their voice succeeded in defeating all sorts of force that the state had to offer. It suggests that in our country still it is the people who are in control, so if Maoist Leaders are sensible enough to understand the newest circumstance then they better leave any desire for radical and authoritative regime, because now they are not dealing with some sophisticated monomaniacs in the government but are dealing with the people for the first time. And for this they don’t have other options because, First, if Maoist were fighting for better governance, true democracy, people’s rights (As they say they are) then inroads made by the peaceful protest of general people in this couple of weeks have been way more than what Maoist have made in their more than a decade long insurgency, killing thousands of innocent people. So the misery that people suffered in Maoist insurgency is too much than what we are suffering now yet what we have gained in these few days have outweighed Maoist achievements in the last 10 years.
Second, if Maoist were simply camouflaging behind their slogan of people centric rebellion to establish their one party radical, communist authoritative rule, than they must be aware that a 250 years old institution which was in Nepal as powerful as any one could ever imagine is now in deep trouble and is desperately struggling for its existing because it became unfavorable for us. Maoist are mere a 10 years old, disguising themselves in the woods, they too don’t have the life for too long if they don’t acknowledge the people and the popular will.
Hence both way around Maoist now have no other choice than to assimilate with the people and leave their bad intention, if any they have, and deadly arms, which seems very futile in front of people’s voice. So it is high time that the Maoist dropped their weapons and join hands for true democracy, laying arms now can decrease not only the cost of war, but can increase the benefits of peace as well. So let us not deviate by the lofty pronouncement of anything by anyone, we cannot wait for things to happen, we have to make things happen by ourselves and fight against tyranny as long as it is here to ruin our lives. And Nepalese people sincerely hope that all the best friends of Nepal and well wishers realize this and help Nepalese to regain their freedom and peace.
Apurba Khatiwada
Kathmandu School of Law
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| Posted by:
Apurba Khatiwada on 4/22/2006 1:16:09 PM |
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| Bleeding Human Rights in Nepal (
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| The use of force by security system against demonstrators is callous. Indiscriminate firings that are deliberately pointed to the unarmed peaceful mass are phenomenal, and the treatment of people by security personnel is inhuman. The streets are bleeding over the last few days. On Tuesday, hundreds of people sustained bullet hits and many of them are reportedly killed. The brutal indulgence of security force in firings and beatings of the people, including children and old-aged, indicates an ill intention of government to suppress democratic values and the movement for reinstatement of the democratic system. Nepalese need urgent support of international community to protect their basic liberties and stolen democracy in this situation.
Crushing the democratic institutions, i.e. political parties and suppressing basic liberties of people cannot help addressing insurgency in Nepal. People have now shown their strengths to protect democracy and their basic liberties. The present surge of the people to the streets in favor of the democracy has proved that the Nepalese people are in support of the political parties and the popular democracy against any kind of authoritarianism, whether it is an absolute monarch or communism. The international community need not suspect on the capacity of the Nepalese people to defend their democracy. Obviously, it needs to concretely and expressly support the people’s movement to reinstate democratic institutions and protect political parties. The reinstatement of the governance by political parties and House of Representatives as avowed by the parties is the choice of people; it has been proved by the surge of the people in the streets.
Any support of the international community to the present government or any of its relaxation to the recognition of the present regime will weaken the position of legitimate political force in the country. This will in turn have a catastrophic consequence. That is to say that the people who are in the streets to reinstate democracy will be compelled to sideline the insurgency. The brutal suppression and inhuman treatment along with countless stances of ill-governance of the present regime has already antagonized the people to this regime. By supporting the present regime will thus not result on democratic consolidation in the country; rather it will essentially strengthen the Maoist doctrine. Some countries therefore are indirectly assisting the Maoist to grow and consolidate the power by their consistent policy of supporting the present illegitimate regime.
The policy of USA and some other countries, in particular, to neglect role of political parties in transformation of Maoist insurgency has obviously encouraged the present regime to ban on democratic political activities. Their consistent suspicion over the democratic parties that they have extending their hands to Maoist has enabled the present regime to ‘defy political parties’ interest and attempt to bring the Maoists into democratic political processes. Instead, this unrealistic policy has encouraged the present government to take it for granted that the ‘western power will make choice of the present government in view of the rising insurgency’. This is a sole ground that the present government has consistently failed to ‘have dialogue with the political parties’. With this psychology, the present government has even prepared to callously suppress the people who have turned on the streets for the sake of democracy. In the days to come, if the international community persists to take its passive and meaningless stand in the present situation, the increased suppression of the security system will push an incredibly larger number of youths towards insurgency, as the youths think their lives in the streets is not safe.
Thus, the international community, USA and India in particular, has to change its stand immediately. They have to firmly stand in support of political parties’ agenda to reinstate the House of Representatives and constitute a parliamentary all-party government and to initiate dialogue with insurgents. The US and Indian government should immediately review their present policy, which in consequence is anti democratic. Over the last one and half years, the human rights have been preyed by the present regime with impunity and US and Indian government’s stand to “watch and see” position has virtually immunized the present authoritarian government to commit countless of anti-human rights mission. People are now compelled to feel frustration to ‘passive policy’ of international community.
Streets of Kathmandu are excessively bleeding over the last few days. Hundreds of citizens have been brutally injured and many of them have been struggling for life. Thousands are arrested and mistreated. People in mass turned up in streets. More incidents of causality are thus obvious. If the situation continues like this it is certain that many thousands will loose their lives, and many youths will join insurgency. In this grim perspective, the international community and the media have to immediately jump in for the protection of lives of people. The powerful representation of the human rights organizations and international media is thus necessary in streets of Kathmandu.
The Nepalese intelligentsia has right to genuinely urge the US government to speak in favor of the democracy and cooperate in process of democratic resolution of the insurgency. The democracy is the only option to insurgency. An authoritarian regime which is using all state powers to crush the legitimate political forces and people’s basic liberties will not be able to address the insurgency; it will rather indirectly help Maoist to emerge powerful political force and disregard democratic political parties. The present scenario of the country thus unquestionably proves that efforts of present regime are to ‘consolidate its strength by eliminating the democratic forces’ which is getting indirect support form confusing stand of the international community. The present government consists of those who ruled prior to 1990, and they never believe in democracy. The present constitution is being very effectively used by the present regime as a camouflage to consolidate their vested interest of remaining in power. Any support to this regime thus results in ‘consolidation of the authoritarian regime’.
The popular participation of the people in the democratic political process is the only option to address the Maoist insurgency. As the nation has continuously seen, the political process of Nepal has been excluding the larger part of the population in political process and economic development. The State machinery has been controlled by a handful of elites. The 1990 popular movement had opened the way for ‘say’ of people, and was never liked by elite group which traditionally wielded the powers. It then immediately involved in conspiring against the democracy. The political parties had been unaware of this mischievous and clandestine movement. Eventually, the present situation had been seen as fallout of the failure of political parties. The present situation is not only a coincident; it is rather a planned action of regressive force, and a plot against the democracy. Every one should understand that ‘the democracy cannot survive without political parties’. The intra-political party democracy will help to strengthen the governing capacity of the parties, and therefore no force can steal democracy in the excuse that the democracy failed to address many problems. People of Nepal have always made a prudent decision in the history. They have a tremendous history of struggle and correcting things in right way. Presently, the people again have expressed their deep concerns and have shown a tremendous solidarity to defend the democracy. No policy of any country or organization should therefore affect the process for reinstallation of democracy, which provides a clue for addressing the insurgency. Nepalese people at this stage need powerful and prudent support of the international community for their lives and struggle to save the nation.
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| Posted by:
Yubaraj Sangroula on 4/12/2006 11:36:25 AM |
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| Concept of Good Governance and the Municipal Election (
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| Good Governance embraces nine pillars as its incessant approach. They are participation, consensus orientation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiencies, equitability and inclusiveness. All these approaches follow the rule of law. It ensures that governance of the state is carried out by representatives of the majority of people, the views of minorities are taken into account and that the voices of the most vulnerable in society are heard in decision-making. It is also responsive to the present and future needs of society. The World Bank has stated that "the minimum core characteristics of governance derive from, or are related to, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)", which plays a crucial role in the realization of the fundamental right to development.
VDCs and Municipalities are the basic and fundamental local units to fulfill the peoples" right to development. People exercise their rights to development by selecting their representatives through participation in election. Participation encourages the decision-making process to be democratic and ensures that the will of the greater number prevails. It follows that there must be equity and inclusiveness in the decision-making process such that all actors and their vulnerability are taken into account. Article 21 of the UDHR holds the foundation for popular participation in governance. Under the article, each individual has the right to participate directly in governance or through representatives chosen by the majority. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government. Each individual also has the right to public services and resources for his/her development.
The Declaration of the Right to Development further concretizes the importance of the principles of Good Governance in development. It, under article one, declares the right of participation in development and stresses the inalienable nature of such right in the attainment of the minimum requirements of human rights. Article 2, on the other hand, lays down the prerogative and obligation of States to consider the participation of the people in the policy making. Furthermore, the Declaration on Social Progress and Development reiterates the idea of active participation of all elements of society in defining and in achieving the common goals of development. Despite all these international provisions, which Nepal is morally supportive to, the recently held municipal election utterly contradicts with these principles, spirits and guidelines of good governance. Thus the even basic norm of good governance seems to have been extinct from Nepali soil.
The "alleged election", which the ruling elites call it, a great success has taken place in a very midst of confusion. However, more than half of the seats have remained vacant, a significant number of people have been elected unopposed and only a few people were seen vying for the post of mayor and his/her deputy. This is because major national parties and the CPN (Maoist), the latter being another influential force in Nepali politics, have called to boycott the election expressing it as a bogus act to legitimize the present government and throw false impression to international community of existence of democracy in Nepal. The highest degree of legitimate decision is achieved only by the direct, unmediated vote of the people and legitimacy is every bit as much the root of democratic stability. But in light of the above circumstances no one has expected the peoples" active participation in the election and the very low turn out of the votes has reflected this, thus virtually ignoring the wider participation of people in the election.
The people, as an actor should not wait for good governance reforms to be instituted but they must actively participate themselves by taking initiative - build forums for broader participation. But in the present election it seemed that the person elected through votes from a small population is to act as peoples" representative of the whole population. This is, in one hand, a total ignorance of democratic culture and practices while on the other, the peoples" representative, who are entitled to gain the confidence of the people and involve in the local development are no longer in position to gain that confidence. This is also directly related to the representatives" accountability to the people. The peoples" representatives should be accountable to their electorates because no political system can possibly achieve stability and legitimacy without being first accountable to its people. But in the context of municipal election, it can be urged that when he/she has been elected through votes of small number of people, how can one expect his/her accountability to the whole electorates of his/her ward or municipality? This increases the vulnerability of using his/her power to exploit against the management of local resources. Hence, the election can be called as a sheer joke and mockery of democracy when almost all national parties, a large section of civil society and the CPN (Maoist) have called for the active boycott of the municipal election.
Participation cannot exist with apathy. But in the present election, what"s the point of good governance where majority of peoples" consensus has never been taken into account? Good Governance is not merely a pay lip service. It is an active and meaningful participation of the stakeholders in decision-making and benefit sharing. In other words, it is a participative system in which representatives are called upon to govern on behalf of people motivated with a will to solve and do the best to the people and make their lives meaningful. But the present electoral process can not be called as participatory, consensus oriented and inclusive since it severely failed to echo the desire, aspiration and ethos of the people.
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| Posted by:
Reena Pathak on 4/2/2006 1:05:58 PM |
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| Expatriate Youths: A Setback to Democracy (
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| Nepal has arrived in a very difficult part of the history making process. Its failure to address the present crisis may lead the country to a bloody future. By and large, institutions of government have almost paralyzed. Displacement in rural part of the country is massive, whereas the brain drain from urban elite population is serious too. The latter has been a characteristic feature of the Nepalese society. About 10% elite population of the country enjoys powers as well as resource of the country for its development, and ultimately a large part of it migrates to USA, Europe and other and some other developed countries. If one statically analyzes this trend, he/she can definitely find that most educated people of Nepal who used the national resource for their development do not stay in Nepal. Incredibly huge number of those who obtained government scholarship for education abroad never return, and those fortunate people who have been able to obtain education from best institutions in the country do not intend to stay in Nepal. The poor and socially marginalized population of Nepal has thus been doubly crushed, firstly every opportunity is grabbed by the urban elites and, secondly, the country is deserted by this group once their personal benefits are satisfied. This is the time in the history of Nepal which requires service of most prosperous and intelligent youth population, and unfortunately with the present trend of brain drain situation the nation may see its ordeal time.
The present crisis has been thus intensified by consistent failure of the government and political parties to manage its resources, and failure to subject the small section of the elite population to the "people"s control". It was also a serious failure of the political parties after 1990. In fact, a significant proportion of the political leadership merged within the elitist population. This is elf evident by "Pajero" scam. To some extent, foreign development assistance organizations are also responsible for this unwanted happening. Many donor agencies and international organizations befriended with "elitist population" of Nepal in selecting projects, setting priorities and implementing project activities". Especially, the project funding through civil society did not flow based on capacity, commitment and credibility of the organizations, but it was mainly governed by personal contact of NGO leaders with managers of the donors. Obviously, a significant amount of the development assistance fund raised out of taxes of people in the friendly countries went to the "personal benefit" of the so-called civil society leaders. Over the years, a group of "airport residence" population (people who spend time in participating in seminars, conference and meeting and spend large part of their time in airport) emerged in Nepal, whereas persons and organizations seriously engaged in development activities in Nepal had been somehow neglected. Their noble actions of changing the lives of Nepalese’s came under shadow. This phenomenon was largely counterproductive to the institutionalization of the democracy in Nepal. Fundamentally, the foreign development assistance to the education sector was largely neglected. Investment both by the government and foreign donor agencies failed to realize that "a vibrant new generation needed to emerge to assume leadership in all spheres of governance". If the advocacy about democracy, good governance, human rights, gender justice, and empowerment of socially marginalized groups was brought to the schools and colleges, a new generation of leadership would have been emerged by now.. However, the empowerment of the new generation of leadership was a dismal failure of the development assistance. Many organizations spent their money on observation tour of political leaders, judges, bureaucrats and other elites. These observation visits had well utilized by participants to "do marketing". Judiciary and other institutions had similar situations. Some judges had over a dozen times opportunity to visit western countries. Even today, this fashion continues.
The democracy has been in crossroad today. Youth leadership in every aspect of development is the only way out. Nepalese society now should give up its pessimistic attitude and start boosting up the innovative and creative youth leadership. The discussion needs to be initiated on "how this can be done". The country"s future is rested on emergence of a new generation with development vision. KSL has revealed, while doing inclusive democracy discussion for about 600 students from over 60 schools in Kathmandu, that the new generation thinks politics a "dirty game". Politics is one of the least preferred issues for consideration. This kind of psyche is detrimental for consolidation of democracy but a boon for authoritarianism. It would be meaningless to talk good governance, human rights and rule of law without a vibrant young generation to defend "democracy". If we start this mission now, we may have its result in ten years. The coming ten years in Nepal is thus a time to nurture a new generation in politics, with vision of development, understanding of diplomacy, commitment to human rights and love to people. The civil society should therefore work to this direction. "Please go to schools and colleges to find intelligent, talent and progressive people”, if you still are inclined to work for democracy.
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| Posted by:
Yubaraj Sangroula on 3/28/2006 11:23:57 AM |
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