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771 14 - 20 August 2015 20+2 Pages Rs 50 #771 14 - 20 August 2015 20+2 pages Rs 50 TWO THOUSAND WIDOWS ROJITA ADHIKARI ani Maiya PrajapatiPrajapati (abovee) was serving food to her daughter, daughter son-in- son in THETHE AUTHORITYAUTHORITY TOTO REBUILDREBU Nlaw and their two children when the EDITORIAL PAGE 2 SOULMATES building in Sankhu started shaking violently just before noon on Saturday 25 April. She shouted “let’s go” and ran out of the house, BETTER BUILD BACK IN CYBERSPACE the others couldn’t make it in time and were Nepal’s post-earthquake rehabilitation now hinges crushed. Nani Maiya lost her family and on the formation of a credible and independent home, and is among Nepal’s estimated 2,000 Reconstruction Authority. earthquake widows. Women’s groups say BY SONIA AWALE PAGE 4-5 widows and single mothers need a special An increasing number government mechanism for help with ofof Nepalis are fi nding rebuilding homes and livelihoods. IT AIN’T OVER YET theirth partners through BY THE WAY Tinder,Tin Facebook and FULL STORY BY ANURAG ACHARYA PAGE 3 matrimonialma sites. BY ROJITA ADHIKARI ON PAGE 16-17 BOUND BY BOUNDARIES BY KARMA GURUNG nepalitimes.com AS IT HAPPENS Watch video online PAGEPA 10-11 BY OM ASTHA RAI PAGE 19 2 EDITORIAL 14 - 20 AUGUST 2015 #771 THE AUTHORITY TO REBUILD ow soon the earthquake has been forgotten, been trying to alert the Nepal government about the and the country has drifted back to politics as need to set up a Disaster Management Authority to Husual. The constitution is finally taking shape, oversee preparedness, contingency planning as well as but the attempt by the four top parties to ram through coordinate rescue, relief and rehabilitation when the boundaries of six provinces in the draft last week set earthquake did strike. off a political earthquake. Aftershocks are still being Of course, nothing was done. The bill to set up the felt, especially in western Nepal. authority has been in limbo in parliament – another The delineation of boundaries was ad hoc, casualty of the lack of political will. If that Authority haphazard and arbitrary. If this is what we had to fight had been in place, not only would we have been much and die for in a ten-year war and suffer another decade more prepared but the rescue and relief would also of peace, then we might as well just have stuck to the have been speedier and smoother. five north-south development zones and devolved Despite the government’s lapses on many fronts, political power to them. We would have saved 17,000 it was admittedly overwhelmed by the scale of the Nepali lives, time, money, and a lot of heartache. destruction: more than 700,000 buildings destroyed, However, the 25 April earthquake did give Nepal’s 30,000 classrooms in ruins. However, there were very politics a mighty jolt and woke up our rulers from their few instances of people dying due to lack of emergency slumber. The public’s disillusionment with politicians medical care, 3,000 injured were airlifted and nearly all was so great they had to try to hurriedly pass the got free treatment. The logistics of food and medicines constitution and use that as an excuse for regime BIKRAM RAI has been relatively well managed. Despite the turf change. Hence the 16-point accord. The opposition, battle at national level, CDOs coordinated aid well. including Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the UCPN(M) and Bijay Do we have the political will to save time Local bodies would have performed even better if there had Gachhadar of the MJF(L), are so desperate to get on board the been elected VDC, DDC and municipality councils unity government that they are trying their best to quickly and money to fuse the long-pending Since the Reconstruction Authority with a mandate for quell the anger in the west and the grievances of the Tharu Disaster Management Authority with the rehabilitation over the next five years has still not been set people to move ahead with the constitution. up, our suggestion would be to fuse it with the proposed Since the government of Prime Minister Sushil Koirala is Reconstruction Authority? Disaster Management Authority. We need something more not known for multi-tasking what has fallen by the wayside credible, and a little more permanent. After all, we are in all this is the formation of the Reconstruction Authority obviously because the agency’s head has ministerial rank, a sure to have floods, landslides (and God forbid) another and the delay in the appointment of its head. The lives and powerful mandate and control over a huge budget. Nothing earthquake somewhere in Nepal in the next five years. The livelihoods of three million people in 14 districts affected new after all. But it is costing us our recovery. new head of the Authority, therefore, can then work on by the earthquake depend on it. As our analysis shows, the earthquake was stark proof of rehabilitation of this disaster so that it serves a model for As our coverage graphically illustrates (page 16-17) nearly our lack of disaster preparedness, which in turn was a result earthquake preparedness for the rest of the country as well. 2,000 widows are still waiting for help four months after the of political and governance failure over the past ten years In fact, that is one of the most significant points in quake. More than two million people are living in tents and (page 4-5). We were fortunate that the earthquake spared the draft Reconstruction Policy drawn up by the National tin shelters. Two months after successfully concluding the much of the densely-populated areas of Central Nepal Planning Commission (NPC): to scale up nationwide the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction (ICNR) the catastrophic destruction that seismologists had been reconstruction process in the 14 affected districts. The and getting a pledge of $4.4 billion, the government has gone predicting. But better readiness would have saved many of policy also favours job creation and use of local resources back to sleep. the lives that were lost. while at the same time encouraging the use of better quality The appointment of the CEO to the Reconstruction For the past seven years, an international consortium reconstruction material and earthquake resistant designs. Authority has been deadlocked because of a tussle between of donors including the United States, Australia, Japan, The theme is to coordinate centrally, but implement locally. the ruling NC and the UML over their party candidates – the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank had And that may as well be our national motto. YOUR SAY www.nepalitimes.com THIS WEEK BORDERING ON BRINKMANSHIP any leaders from the Gang of Four. important issue. More of similar write ups BLACK AND WHITE Someone needs to explain and Grimalji are needed to convince the government to Great job, Captain Lama. The idea defi ne what brinkmanship means start taking corrective action. Keep up the to highlight positive energy is highly to the Netas who dominate the TEXT BOOKS good work. commendable (‘ Life in black and Maobadi, NC and UML (‘Bordering This is yet another damning indictment Mahesh P Adhikari while ‘, Sonia Awale, #769). We on brinkmanship’, Editorial, #770). of the Nepali education system (“U r should focus the achievements of Brinkmanship can wipe you out from welcome, wanna cu ASAP 4 a drink”, No wonder our education system is ordinary people doing extra ordinary existence. Koirala and Dahal and Oli, Sarthak Mani Sharma, #770). Pass the unable to produce expected outcomes. things. Ninety-nine per cent of GOPEN RAI (67,454 PEOPLE REACHED) (85 SHARES) appoint someone soon to head the buck mentality is a continuing approach Where does the budget go? Nepalis are hard working, honest, Reconstruction Authority. People who by education offi cials. Whether it is the Sabitri Gurung loving and peaceful. It's only the Most reached and shared on Facebook lost everything have nothing more to School Sector Reforms Program or corrupt leaders of Kathmandu valley 37-year-old Monica Shahi from Kailali becomes lose. our recent research papers on quality This is unbelievable! Middle Ages are that belong to the 1 per cent that are the fi rst transgender in Nepal to get a passport Ramesh Thapa Magar education, nobody in the Ministry of not over yet. rotten to their core. with category ‘Others’ on Monday. Education seems to want to know about Len Rijnberg Heramba Poudyal Most popular on Twitter The Constitution is merely anything. Just last year they ignored Vacancy: Prime Minister by Ass a mechanism for the purpose of offers to participate in whole system This is a travesty. Someone should be I have been watching Black and (58 retweets, 50 favourites) regulating the work of various organs research, and don’t even respond to answerable to this. White for years, and it has brought Most visited online page of the State. It is not a mechanism for copies of research sent to them by Nepali out the heroism of ordinary Nepalis U r welcome, wanna cu ASAP 4 a drink political parties to be installed in offi ce. email. But maybe that’s the problem, people spreading optimism and by Sarthak Sharma (1,616 views) What should be the policy of the State, receiving advice from educated, SECULARISM hope. Keep it up, Vijay Lama jyu. Most commented how the society should be organised competent, experienced educational The Maoists killed people, politicians Ina Bordering on brinkmanship, Editorial in its social and economic sides are practitioners who are young and female betrayed their oath to constitution, (32 comments) matters which must be decided by is forbidden.
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