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More On Trade It is hoped that Prime Minister Koirala's visit to India will boost up the trade relations between the two countries (Will Koirala's Visit Bring In Investors? Spotlight August 11). The revoking of Special Additional Duty imposed by India on Nepalese exports is a good news to the entire business community. But still the bilateral trade is heavily in favor of India and therefore Nepal must establish more export-oriented industries. Ganesh KC Learn Lessons From India India has made a tremendous progress in the field of Information Technology (Will Koirala's Visit Bring In Investors? Spotlight August 11). By visiting Hyderabad, Prime Minister Koirala, too, indicated that Nepal was interested in seeking cooperation from India in the IT field. In fact, Nepal has a lot to learn from Indian IT sector. Cooperation between IT entrepreneurs of the two countries will definitely yield positive results. Naresh Shrestha Stress On Trade The political problems between India and Nepal are very complex and need a long time to be sorted out (Will Koirala's Visit Bring In Investors? Spotlight August 11). So if wisdom is allowed to prevail, the leaders of both the countries should instead focus on building their economic relations. A strong and healthy economic relations could be mutually rewarding and in long term the trade ties can also help the leaders in either country to have a fresh and pragmatic look at the political problems and solve them in the best interest of bilateral relations. Janak Sharma Lax On Laxmanpur The construction of Laxmanpur barrage by India near Nepalese border (Bund of Discord Spotlight July 28) has soured relations between the two countries. While no one can doubt the fault of India, it is also to be noted why the Nepalese authorities were mum about the issue until the eleventh hour. Certainly, such a big barrage could not have been constructed overnight and definitely Nepalese authorities were not so inefficient as to know of it only after water began to spill over the borders, or are they? The lion's share of blame should therefore go to our very own authorities. As it is useless to cry over the spilt milk, one can only hope that the authorities are not that inefficient to tackle this issue in the days to come. Already, the facts have pointed towards extreme negligence on the part of Nepalese authorities. Binaya Sharma Why No Marathon? It was sad to know that no Nepalese marathon runners would be taking part in the upcoming Sydney Olympics (Bye Bye Marathon Spotlight July 28). Marathon was one of the forte of Nepalese athletes. Many a gold medal was won by Nepalese marathon runners in South Asian games. It is beyond logic why the sports officials have decided not to take part in marathon in the coming Olympics. There is still time and one can only hope that wisdom will prevail with our sports authorities. Besides, taking part in marathon is a prestige in itself. There is very remote chance for Nepalese athletes to win medals in any discipline at the Olympics level so it makes no sense to exclude marathon in preference to other disciplines. Dinesh Baidya It Stinks The intensity of the stink emanating from growing heaps of garbage is on the increase and the authorities are yet to find a suitable dumping site (Nowhere To Dump Spotlight July 21). The garbage problem of Kathmandu is a classic case how the inefficient officials and disoriented politicians make up for a deadly combine. While the ministries and municipalities have already inflicted wounds in their heads by scratching it too much in their bid to find suitable dumping site, the opposition politicians are making hay while the garbage heap grows. Unless these two lots improve themselves, there is no respite to the common street walkers who will have to continue to walk with their nose closed for God knows how many more years. Suresh Amatya |
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