Who is responsible?
The Himalayan Times
5 September 2019
Who is
responsible?
Nepal has been enjoying
federalism for the last one and half years. All the people had a high hope of
seeing “New Nepal” as promised by the major political parties before and after
the promulgation of new constitution. But, there does not seem to be seen any
sign of it until now. It might be that at that time, how the “New Nepal” would like
was not properly categorized or defined. Due to that reason, may be people had high
expectation from the new structure, bearing in their mind that the major
political parties would be sincere to them and fulfill their promises.
Now, almost every-day, we watch,
read and hear about people from every walk of life showing and expressing their
grievances and dissatisfaction over the poor governance, be it at the federal,
provincial and local levels. Almost all the government institutions, political
institutions, educational institutions, health institutions and so on are deep in
mismanagement, unprofessional conducts and other malpractices. We read and hear
about the medical colleges charging enormous fees undermining the government
instructions. We read and hear that the hospital administration is heavily
involved in multi-million corruption cases. I don’t feel comfortable to mention
about the political corruption taking place in our country time and again.
How does it look like and what
does it indicate when college or university students are breaking the chairs
and tables of their classrooms and padlocking their senior teachers while
expressing their anger and frustration towards the mismanagement and massive
irregularities taking place in their institutions? “Agitating students
vandalise TMC” (THT, Sept 4, Page 3). Where are the educational institutions
leading their students who are to be the sources of future human resources of the
nation? Is it because of the heavy politicisation of educational institutions? Is
it because of the high-handedness of the bureaucrats who seem to be affiliated
with this or that party? Having raised
these concerns, I am in a dilemma, who is to blame?
Rai
Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
