Shame on the government
The
Himalayan Times
30 June
2017
Shame on
the government
We
have seen in the past that the major political parties, whoever and whenever
ascended the political helm, had split the ministries to accommodate their
loyal lawmakers in the ministerial chairs. Has any government so far shown any
interest to find out whether these ministries were doing their tasks to the
satisfaction of the common people? So far, there are more than two dozen
ministries designed to serve the nation and its people. Political leaders talk much
about the development works being done in the country.
It
was not a surprising but sad news to read “Humla local reps in capital to
revive rice supply” (THT, June 27, Page 1) when the newly elected people’s
representatives should have been focussing their effort on other development
programmes. Instead, they are in the capital wandering around Nepal Food
Corporation (NFC) and other different government offices to resume the supply
of rice to their district. What a shame on the government and the NFC? Other
remote districts are also food deficit areas. I am not so sure about whether
the concerned ministries and departments have put any effort to seek other
better options, such as, digging irrigation canals, rather than airlifting rice
forever.
The
government through NFC is supplying rice in a subsidized price to these
districts using air transportation. However, this time the private airlines
have excessively raised the cargo charge. As a result, the NFC was unable to supply
rice to Humla. Why does the government not use Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC)
rather than private airlines? Or why doesn’t the government call for bidding
among the private airlines for supplying rice to these remote districts? I hope,
there are not any commission games on air cargo charges.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj,
