Wednesday, March 29, 2006

N.P.UPADHYAYA

If one prefers now to move to rather comfortable areas from the hussle-bussle of the Urban areas, it is no wonder. Naturally the people living in the urban areas have become tired of high prices, ever increasing pollution and the high prices of the flats in the urban settings and now wish to reside in places that are entirely different than what they have had in the previous ones.

No wonder that the Paris denizens have begun to migrate to rather free localities that are certainly available only in the countrysides. In doing so they appear to have got frustrated with the congested "living environment" found in the cities of the sorts of Paris.

Indeed the search now is for a place that has less strain, low rentals and environment friendly atmosphere. Which places could be equipped with all these amenities other than the so far neglected country sides and remote areas.

With such a new turn that the society wants to take, the country side and the remote areas is sure to develop.

If the Parisians can do it why not the Kathmanduites?

Yes we can do it but.

But the needed infrastructure remains totally absent. This means that if the government authorities and the policy-designers seated at the national Planning Commission take initiatives in this regard, much could be done to ease the ever-increasing burden of the Urban metropolis. If done so would also mean the automatic development of the basic infrastructures such as link roads, health clinics, schools for children and etc.

This way development could be brought to the so far neglected areas and the people living there for long could also enjoy the fruits of development to which they have been so far denied for understandable reasons.

Good idea indeed but then the Himalayan question still remains intact: Who will take such initiatives?