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Deliver
We recall with proper satisfaction that a Nepali citizen currently occupying a very high and prestigious seat in the world body of the United Nations, Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam, had some years back told a high profile intellectual gathering that "if we (read the Nepalese) could be half as effective in producing results as we are in producing reports, the people of this country would indeed be very well served".
Mr. Gautam must be congratulated for what he has said of his own brethren. In a short sentence he has summarized what the Nepalese are. It appears that the UN high official is well aware of what the Nepalese are and what the Nepalese can accomplish in no time but then he concurrently he also understands our inner abilities in implementing the reports compiled or so brilliantly prepared by us. His contention is that the maturity and the effectiveness that we exhibit at times of making or preparing a report in the name of the country should be translated equally with all the needed efficiency and smartness at time of its implementation.
The world knows now that the implementation part in this country is as bad as any thing. We are smart in preparing reports. We are effective in identifying the weaknesses that plague the country. We know on how to make Nepal a heaven well within fifteen years. However, the tragedy with us is that we fail miserably in implementing our own prepared reports when it comes to the crunch. It is this slackness or for that matter the inability that we have been lagging behind all those countries near and far which gained independence more or less the same time as we did.
There is no dearth of talents in Nepal as very smartly discovered by Mr. Gautam. In addition to that we have best scholars, finance controllers, philosophers and highflying academicians in practically all the possible sectors. However, the fact is that the intellectuals, as is the Nepali habit, talk much and work less, which again justifies Mr. Gautam's saying what is already been said in the opening paragraphs.
To cut it short, this is the time for the presentation of a fiscal budget for the country. Naturally, all the eyes are concentrated on the presentation of the budget some time soon. However, the practice is that we the Nepalese enjoy the commencement of the budget speech expecting that the incumbent government would take proper care of their sufferings. However, the recorded fact is that every time we feel cheated, deceived and humiliated because none of the budgets thus far presented in the country has taken care of the people falling in the lower echelons of the society. They expect but feel cheated every time. The process thus goes on and on.
Media reports have already indicated that the government would allocate a handsome amount in the security sector which is only obvious due to the situation facing the country. However, if in the name of the preservation of the security situation the amount that is for the development purposes and meant for the men belonging to the poor strata is consumed or ate up by the security sector then the people will not take that decision in that easy manner as could have been imagined of by the men in the government.
The people expect and have justifiable reasons to hope that the government that is headed none less by the Head of the State himself would concentrate its efforts in maintaining a sort of balance in between the needs of the State and those of the needy ones that is the poor and the men falling in the middle class category.
The people expect much from the King. The people have a faith that the King this time around would himself take note of the sufferings of the low rung people and do the needful so that a vast population so far rejected and neglected by the Singh Durbar authorities feels that there has been a sort of marked difference in between the previous governments and a government headed straight by the King himself.
The King is hereby appealed to take serious note of the concerns of the people and act in a manner that satisfies the expectations of the people. If the Head of the State leaves the people's concerns to the mercy of the ministers or for that matter of the corrupt and lethargic bureaucrats then they will feel again the same what they have been experiencing over decades and decades.
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