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While priority has been given to farm modernisation, commercialisation and mechanisation to attain food self-sufficiency, the modernization project will be handled by local units. Among those to receive funding will be special crops development, farmers market infrastructure development, fishery development, and small irrigation projects.
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While we celebrated Mother’s Day in the U.S., Nepalis headed to the polls. An estimated 71 percent of eligible voters selected local officials, a privilege denied them for the last twenty years. After ousting their monarchy, the country is poised to show the rest of the world how democracy works. Read more at ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nepalese-vote-1st-local-elections-20-years-47398444
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started management of the wires and cables hanging from utility poles.
Tangled wires mar an ancient city struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. The news the city is removing them is encouraging, but far from the perfect scenario of seeing no wires in the city at all. Despite the mess, internet connectivity is faster here than in many of other countries around the world (most notably the United States), and since modernization began in many areas of Nepal after the advent of portable cell phones, telephone lines often became unnecessary.
Source: KMC starts managing tangled wires – Capital – The Kathmandu Post
Haze and Dust in Kathmandu / AFP
According to Ashok Dahal and Annabel Symington of Agence France-Presse,
a powerful bus lobby prevents the implementation of legislation which would relieve pollution in Kathmandu. A government ban on public vehicles older than 20 years introduced in February has so far yielded only four minibuses and one bus being taken off the road. An estimated 2,500 fail to meet new age requirements for vehicles. Read more in The Nation Multimedia: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/life/living_health/30312948.
Given the result of recent elections in the U.S., it may not seem relevant that Nepal is set to hold their own soon. But this is a big deal in Nepal! A little-known fact is that this small nation deposed a monarch in a bloodless coup and now is in the process of instituting changes that will affect generations to come. Read this account from Reuters news service and catch up on what’s been happening with politics in Nepal.
via Nepal to hold first local elections in 20 years: minister | Reuters
Sasu Aama 