Democracy For Nepal

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

माधव नेपाल: दही च्युरे बाहुन

वाक स्वतंत्रता हुनुपर्छ तर सीके राउतलाई समातेको ठीकै हो भन्नुको मतलब के? यसो भन्नुको अर्थ के लाग्छ? माधव नेपालले वाक स्वतंत्रता हुनुपर्छ भनेर वाक स्वतंत्रता हुने भए माधव नेपालले वाक स्वतंत्रता गायब पार्नुपर्छ भन्ने भए वाक स्वतंत्रता गायब हुनुपर्ने हो। तर हुँदैन। वाक स्वतंत्रताको सवालमा माधव नेपाल एक जना irrelevant व्यक्ति हो भन्ने कुरा त्यसैबाट प्रमाणित हुन्छ। म वाक स्वतंत्रताको पक्षमा छु तर यो दही च्युरे बाहुनले मुख नखोलेकै बेस।

नेपालमा एमाले भन्दा घटिया, racist, prejudiced अर्को कुनै राजनीतिक पार्टी छैन। एमाले भनेको पहाड़ी बाहुनहरुले नेपालको राजनीतिमा अन्तिम हुइंया गर्न जाने ठाउँ हो।

State And Local Elections Before Monsoon 2015

It is imperative that the constitution is promulgated on time, and the state and local elections are held before monsoon 2015. The vacuum at the local level has been a great disservice to the country and its peoples.

Because federalism is still as controversial as ever, it is likely the geographical boundaries might be agreed to, but it might be best to leave the business of naming the states to the duly elected state legislatures. I have seen too many hyphens in some of the proposed names.

Federalism Is Cheaper Than The Unitary System

English: A map of Canada exhibiting its ten provinces and three territories, and their capitals. (Lambert conformal conic projection from The Atlas of Canada) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Federalism is cheaper than the unitary system in place, because federalism is a far more efficient way of delivering government services to the people. This whole idea that expenses will go up 10 times because there will be 10 new states is bizarre. It is even more bizarre because that argument is being pushed around by some otherwise very smart people.

Law enforcement is handled by states in a federal system. That means the central government budget for law enforcement will go down by at least 90%. The civil war has long been over but the bloated army has not been downsized. There is a 90% savings when you bring down the number of soldiers to 10,000 from its current 90,000.

Several ministries can be outright eliminated. A bunch can be brought together. All need to be downsized. I see a 50% cost saving if all this is done right. Why is there a separate Ministry Of Irrigation? Why is that not part of the Ministry of Agriculture?

Agriculture
Tourism
Defense
Education
Health
Energy
Finance
Foreign Affairs
Home
Industry
Trasportation
Science And Technology
Federal Affairs
Information And Communications

These 14 ministries would be enough. All would be restructured. All would be downsized. All would be computerized.

The state governments would generate their own revenues. The local governments would have their own budgets. What can be done locally should not be passed on to the state and central governments. What can be done at the state level should not passed to the central government. That is what federalism means. In this arrangement the efficiency goes way up. And that is why the costs come down dramatically.