CAN POOR NEPAL AFFORD TO PUT COSTLY INFRASTRUCTURE ON FRAGILE HILLS?And India? The Himalayas remain to be mandatory life line for Man and Nature beyond borders and identities.Not only those living in the hills in their day to day plight and suffering live with the glaciers but we also,those living in the plains have to drink the Himalayan Milk. For me the calamity should not be discussed focusing on Nepal only as the entire geopolitics geologically is a single humanscape which is endangered as never before. Palash Biswas

CAN POOR NEPAL AFFORD TO PUT COSTLY INFRASTRUCTURE ON FRAGILE HILLS?And India?

The Himalayas remain to be mandatory life line for Man and Nature beyond borders and identities.Not only those living in the hills in their day to day plight and suffering live with the glaciers but we also,those living in the plains have to drink the Himalayan Milk.

For me the calamity should not be discussed focusing on Nepal only as the entire geopolitics geologically is a single humanscape which is endangered as never before.

Palash Biswas

We are getting feedbacks from the Himalayas round the clock.Tej kumar Karki wrote the comment this time responding to Mr.Shreshtha.I have to intervene as this afternoon I just stumbled on Bangla DD and coincidentally saw the film Herbert from the beginning to the end.The conclusion of Nabarun Bhattacharya penned Novel as well as the film is ditto which this Mahabhukap teaches us that no one may predict where the explosion would take place.Herbert created a grand Explosion with his death and he did not plan it.I would reather write a detailed story in Hindi or Bengali on this film.

The Himalays is not simply a beautiful landscape nor it is the heaven as we believe and the India Prime minister visiting china made is an affair of religious faith as with no less than two dozen deals struck to hand over Indian infrastructure and consumer market the Chinese companies ended in opening th Nathula pass for Kailash Mansoravar yatra.blindly toeing the Hindutva line.

Late the dust settle and I would write in details how the so much so hyped milestone mind be a land mine all set to blast the future of India making in China this time.We are still paying for the Himalayan Blunder committed by Nehru and I might not live to see the aftershocks to follow.

For me the calamity should not be discussed focusing on Nepal only as the entire geopolitics geologically is a single humanscape which is endangered as never before.

This time it is of course Nepal and we might see ,the inflicted tragedy beyond UP,Bihar and Bengal,it might destroy the emerging greatest market into radioactive dust

Tej kumar Karki wrote:

DEAR BK SHRESTHA JI

YOUR INSIGHTS ON THE FRAGILITY OF POOR PEOPLE LIVING ON TOP OF MOUNTAINS AND BEARING THE BRUNT OF NATURAL DISASTERS ALL OVER NEPAL ARE NOTE WORTHY

BUT IN THE SHORT TERM THE EARTHQUAKE HIT DISTRICTS NEED URGENT ATTENTION

AND IN THE LONG TERM: LONG TIME BACK I WROTE " CAN POOR NEPAL AFFORD TO PLAY A COSTLY GAME OF HILL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT"

PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Bihari Krishna Shrestha<biharishrestha@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Tej jee,

About 15 years ago, I was in Laprak for a while which was a village of

its own kind in the whole of hill Nepal. It was one single compact

village comprising of some six hundred households that constituted all

the nine wards of its VDC. While it was a very nice table land, its

physical situation was slightly projecting out to the south, thus,

generating constant concerns for the locals as well as the

"development visitors" if the whole of the village might one day come

crashing down to the valley below. So, what happened to the Laprak

people during the recent quake was only to be expected. They certainly

need to be resettled in a better location.

However, the Laprak case is only part of the story. In most of the

affected hills, it is mostly the poor who suffered extensively. Most

of them have been living in makeshift dwelling units, eking out an

existence from marginal lands that hardly met their need for more than

half a year in most cases. There are thousands and thousands of such

victims, and they too need to be resettled properly so that they could

get to live a more decent human life for themselves in New Nepal. If

some serious relief and rehab do not get underway more or less

instantaneously, the monsoon that would be here in full swing about a

month from now would take its own toll due to lack of food, medical

help and protection from rain. But we have seen it time and time again

that the government--composed of corrupt politicians and similarly

able bureaucrats--is only painfully incompetent to deliver any such

aid, let alone in a scale that the current situation demands. There is

only one institution in Nepal that has the organizational discipline

and capability to undertake such a mission--and that has also amply

demonstrated its competence in the relief work in recent quake--is the

Nepal army, aided by other security forces. My own suggestions have

been that (1) in order to make it a top priority emergency

undertaking, the task should be led by the President of the Republic

himself. After all, he is already leading a task of much lesser

magnitude and importance, the Churia Forest protection and

conservation. Therefore, the government must request the President to

take over this task of averting further disaster for the million of

victims of this 2072 Great Quake. To that end, the donor community too

which would be providing most resources for the task should proffer

their own suggestion to and impress upon the government and the

President their own concerns and sense of urgency. (2) Secondly, the

army which alone has the strength of some 100,000 people should be

asked to manage the whole undertaking of relief and rehab in all the

affected districts. (3) Thirdly, since most of the quake victims would

be rebuilding their lives in their own areas, they themselves should

be organized into their own user groups and put in charge of their own

relief and rehab with the support of t he army personnel. While this

would enable them to devise solutions in keeping with the

location-specific nature of the catastrophe that affected them, it

will also the relief and rehab work get underway simultaneously in all

places, thus helping the victims to avert the possible misery to which

they would otherwise be exposed after the onset of the monsoon in

particular. In all this, we must make sure that the politicians almost

all of whom are corrupt to the bone must be kept completely out of the

loop. Let them shed crocodile tears in the form of "sankalpa prastav"

etc in their overcrowded Constituent Assembly--most of them have no

business being there--where they have been mercilessly consuming the

precious scarce resources that should have gone to the disaster

victims just now. I hope it makes sense to you.

Bihari Krishna Shrestha

On 5/14/15, Tej Kumar Karki <tejkarki@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.ekantipur.com/kantipur/2072/1/30/full-story/346471.html

>

> स्थानीयका अनुसार गोरखामा भूकम्प प्रभावितमध्ये सबैभन्दा जोखिममा लाप्राक छ ।

> भूकम्पले धाजा फाटेको जमिन वर्षा थेग्न नसकेर पहिरिने खतरा छ । अहिले पनि यहाँ

> दिनहुँ असिनापानी पर्छ ।

>

> स्थानीय मणिकामदेवी मावि विद्यालय व्यवस्थापन समिति अध्यक्ष किसान गुरुङले

> भने,

> 'अरू गाउँमा भत्किएका घर फेरि पुरानै ठाउँमा खाँबा गाडेर उभ्याउन मिल्छ तर,

> लाप्राकमात्रै यस्तो छ जसलाई पहिरोले ढिलोचाँडो लैजाने संकेत देखिएको छ ।'