Educate the youth and discipline the police!

A country that neglects the basic investments in the societal needs is sure to go to the dogs sooner or later. Similarly, a nation is bound to go to the hell if it does not take proper care of its illiterate citizens. In Nepal, the successive governments formed after 1950s have summarily rejected the need to invest in the development of Human resources. Lack of needed investments in sectors such as health, education and the building basic infrastructures have only annoyed the majority of the population. Instead, the government is keen in flattening the budgets in the unproductive sectors such as defense. This is a continuing dilemma which Nepal's knowledgeable circles have all along failed to understand.

Last week one story penned by a teacher perhaps revealed that this Himalayan Kingdom invested in education less than two dollars each year on a student. The news in itself was frightening indeed. One fails to understand that why the government in Nepal summarily neglects this sector knowing fully well that it is only the education that would keep the democratic system going. The more and more people were educated the more it would benefit the system. Undoubtedly, growing literacy rates will ensure the longevity of the system now in place. For an uneducated youth in the remote parts of this nation democracy or no democracy makes no significant difference. For an illiterate person the merits and the benefits of this system mean little, as he is not in a position to get the real difference. Thus for those uneducated people lingering the lives becomes the prime issue and nothing else.

This situation amply prompts them to join the ranks of the Maoists' or for that matter the band of the hooligans of the sort of those who some time back started summarily chopping the bodies of the Kathmanduites who had on that fateful morning gone for their regular morning walk. While the uneducated youths opt for this notorious fate, the same band of the girls goes in for prostitution jobs, which is only but natural.

Most of the teenage girls who were apprehended in the recent weeks from the so-called dance restaurants were either uneducated or were poverty stricken. Just imagine the fate of the country's youths who were not only uneducated but were reeling under abject poverty, what else was left for them other than joining the criminal acts or selling the fresh albeit to linger the lives in a comfortable manner. However, it is altogether a different matter that the finales of such acts land them in unimaginable trouble ultimately.

Perhaps the government is aware of such consequences but yet appears reluctant in initiating campaigns aimed at reducing the all-pervasive menace of poverty and the growth of literacy.

A particular state must rejoice if her citizens were literate. An increased literacy rate definitely benefits the state as it is considered as the asset of the state. Conversely, a state, which fails to invest in such sectors, is by all means a wretched one. The state then becomes a place inhabited by fools and only fools.

For the road: Two Police Inspectors were found enjoying free sex last week with the restaurant dancer girls. The policemen reportedly in almost objectionable conditions apprehended the girls during midnight. Interestingly enough, the policemen too were found in most objectionable positions. However, the police officials who were on duty and were supposed to nab the girls perhaps thought of enjoying free sex prior to submitting them for proper police actions.

Whether any actions have been taken or not against the erring policemen are yet to be made public. However, this news has prompted hundreds of the qualified teenage boys of Kathmandu to join the police job for obvious reasons.

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