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www.spotlightnepal.com TheBanker Awards 2010 IAUIC1~~JH . NEPAL INVESTMENT BANK LTD. With each award, We thank the true winners. Our Clients, Employees, Stakeholders, Partners & Regulators 1 Winning our 4h Bank of the year award in 7 years could not have been possible without you. We appreciate your commitment and patronage. With this global recognition of our service, performance and strong financial stability, we pledge to strive further to deliver the next level of banking services and contribute to the prosperity of our nation. Tel: 4228229, 4242530 www. n ib I. com. n p li1 a1e1 ;; ~ra11Sc til uc ~ ft!J. ·nu· l!.ankl·•· Thl'llankl·r ··~ Banker Tr.:Banker NEPAL INVESTMENT BANK LTD. ftjJ Kif ' Bw ;., ot tht lW 2010 iel ~ Y!J 11 .... od II·• \ • .. , ;:!m-, I'Untl ol tho Ye-'!r lOOl rr'ru{y a :Nepa{i (]3anft tl• p.tl NEPAl NEPAL '·•···' politic;t! quake~ aside. "''c a m.tjnr phr..,ic.ll earth · ntly. \(thOU)?,h tht: jolt ITlC;l<,U in the Richter .tt its epiccntrc, ·n,tl d.1mage \\<h caused in l) across the country. F,·en thl' penpk lh·ing in remote an: yet to p.ct the relief. carahilit y to handle eli i.kc quake, Ncral nccJ>. w enhance a r .thility further. Thi-; i ~ what t . · of the quake . In a course o r prolonged econom ic iHlcu ltic>;, Nepalese arc cclehrati eir great fcMi\•al Das hain an pawali. The rising market prices of essential iwns ha ve al trou bles among many. this, people .tre facing cliiTiculty to home due to lack of commuters. At a 'when t he coumry hns hccn h unstable political s it COVER STORY:N ear Goal Post uuoiJUlH seems to ha.\'e time to look at . ,\!though Prime l\linister Dr. Ram Bhattar,ti repeatedly claimed he will conclude the peace process con~titutlon "rit i ng within three onths. there i" no sign (or eJrly "'-''w'""' of the peace prO<.:ess. \\'ith the announcemem o( ~e rism Year 2011, 'lepal sut •~a.m·"'""'''" marketing globally, the wrok in the drac.tic increase in the the tourbts. From diversity to nature, Nepal h.tf> many thins POUTICS: Peace In Pieces? 8 oa~L A I L hough N cpa I re mainccl NEWSNO'T5 ted til l 1950. tO Ltl'ism helped to Nepalese un ique culmres with the ECONOMIC BRIEFS 4 of the vvorlcl. One o( the importan NEWS CUP 5 pccts of this year's slo~a n of World m Day rourism l in l<ing Cultures OPINION : Dipak Gyawali 6 very much appropri ate for Nepal. As VIEWPOINT: Dr. Shambhu Ram Simkhada 9 rism is n hack bone of Nepal's FACE TO FACE : CP.Gajurel lf'r,,nnm \\ hich pro\'iclcsemploymentfor 12 portion o f p opulatio n, any FACE TO FACE : Jaya Prakash Gupta 13 '""'u''"'"" i 11 the state of lOU rism can make COMMENTARY: Yubaraj Ghimire 14 of differences. As Nepal celebrated ECONOMY : Surya Nepal Garment Closure ~" 1 9 ld Tourism Da)', \\'C al"o decided to ~ _:.. ENVIRONMENT :Chanda Rana -- at different aspects of tourism in 20 as a CO\'Cr story. As :"'cpalese ' ~~-- GREAT HIMALAYAN QUAKE: Wake Up Call 21 lrnll~hr-,ri Oashain [csri\·al. \\'C \\ ,,. · all our rc.tders, patrons MDGs 22 "~lappy Oashain. PROFILE : DR. Anjani Kumar Sharma 23 FOCUS : Krishnaman Pradhan 24 15 YEARS OF AIN 26 HEALTH: Buddha Basnyat, MD 30 Editor and Publisher· Keshab POUdel. Senior Editor: Alok Tumbahangphey. 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ISSN: 2091-0754 (Online) NEW SPOTLIGHT NEWSMAGAZINE I Sept. 30, 201~ 1 Read SPOTLIGHT News Magazine Packaged with Up-to-Date News, Views and Analyses Machhapuchchhre Bank Limited Log on for news update : www.spotlightnepal.com ~ ~~ fiilfc11(!5 : hi" .fai.rC~!"~tiM tw.l llr!~JM<tr!ell(t-Jrt Tel: 977-1-4430250, Email: [email protected] NEWSNOTE British Council Organised A US, Nepal Armies ln Disaste r Workshop Response Exercise British Council Global School The Armies of Nepal and the United Partnership (GSP) Program organized a States were co- hosting the Nepal kS tudenr Workshop" on the Global Disaster Response Exercise and Themes of Susrainahlc Oc,-dopmcnt ;mel Champion I-:ritii Shresrha and a forum Exchange (DREC) September 18-21 at Peace &: Conflict Resolution on thean-e on conllict resolution hy C Ii mate the :\epal Army Club. The DREE is a September 19. Fifty n\'C students from Champion Babu Ram Regmi comprehensi\'e effon focusing on 18 schools participated in the program. Vaishali Pradhan, County t-. lanager, building multilateral interoperability in 1 he students included 12 from GSP said, "ln order to bring a global disaster response between the United 1--..athmandu, 4 lrom Pokhara, one each dimension into our teaching and States and Nepal and identifying areas from Butwal and Bi rarnagar. learning, it i s important to make to increase preparation and risk Along with presentations on the students understand subjects through mitigation. Glohal1 hcmes, the wotk~' hl1p included practical means. This workshop was an T he DREE is part of Pacific a demonstration on briquette making invaluable opportunity for stuclcnts ap;ecl Resilience, the United States Arm y from recycled waste by Sanu l<.aji 13-15 years to understand the concepts Pacific I lumani tarian Assistance and Shrestha, Chairman 1>f Foundation of of Sustainable Development and Conll ict Initiative. The Sustainable Technologies (FoST) and Resol ution through p ractical Disaster Relief British Cou nci I In ternational Climate demonstrations and forum. theatre.'' nverarehing theme of Pacific Resilience is to bring the disaster response ife Beating Ok and other intemationally agreed upon Some Women Find W stakeholders from all echelons of ln Some Instances: NMlCS commitments. government, military, and civilian Forty eight percent of epalcse "The NJ\ llCS 2011 co\'ers topics related agencies together i_n one venue to build women hetween 15 .tnd 49 believe that to nutrition, child health, erl\'ironmcnt, wife beating hy hu'>band is justified in reproductb·e health, education, child working relationships for future relief ~lt least one of the circumstances like she protection, and HIV, AIDS. endea\'ors. Dialogue and practical goes our without telling him, neglects Wom en's Participation In Peace, application form the nucleus of the the children, argues with him, refuses sex Security Stressed training methodology of this wide with him and burns the food. 1 epalesc ''·omen from different',·al ks ranging humanitarian assistance and Similarly, 62 percent of Nepalese of life met \\i.th senior official<: of the disaster relief e\'ent. women thought \'erhal abuse and threat J\ li.nistry of Home Affairs, \tin is try of Partnership Focuses M aize Sector to the daughter in Ia" was okay i_n the Defense and the Resident Coordinatnr improvement of the United Nations i_n Nepal. -,he circumstances lU<e she goes out without The \llinistry of Agricult ure and children, argues meeting \<Vas held under the banner of telling her, neglens the Cooperatives, the Department of with or clisolxys her, c.l oes not bring cloWl)' "Global Open Day fo e \Nomen, Peace Agriculture, USAlD, and a US-based and does not rinish wmk in time. and Security: Cencier Responsi\'e have partnered to Security Sector" at the Centre for company, Monsanto, Constitutional Dialogue. promote the use of hybrid maize seeds In his remark, the UN Resident and pro vid e tmiJ:ilng to farmers iJ1 Nepal. Coordinator Robert Piper remarked India Funds Morang School BuildiJ1gs "Experiences show that women's Ambassador Jayam Prasad visited par~icipation in peace bui !ding Morang on 14 September 2011 to lay the processes, especiall y at decision making foundation of a school building for Shree k,·cb is key t.o create a gender just Adarsha lligher Secondary School, society. 1t is up to us to sei::c this Biratnagar, and inaugurate the school opportunit> ;md build on the existing building for Shree Saras\Yati Higher This b what ep<tl \ lulriple Indicator capacity and ex-perience. 1 nRethcr \\"C Secondary SchooL Itahara, built with 2010) can engage women more in peace Cluster Sun·e> (\!\IICS, India's assistance under -...:epal - India Preliminary Report has showed. The building in Nepal." lconomic Cooperation Programme. \lulriple Indicator Cluster Sunc) Embassy Regrets Deaths In Wall The Inclian Ambassador first laid the (\ IICS) is an intern,nional household Collapse sun·ey program (b·doped by U NTCEF. he British Embassy has tleepl }' foundation stondor the consmJCtion of Ttproviclesup to datdnformationonthc regretted the deaths of three Nepali a school building for Shree Adarsha situation of children and women, and citizensancl injmies toothersasa result HigherSeconclarySchoolatBiratnagar. mcasu res key indicator:> Lha t allow of the collapse of pan of the l: m hassy One of the oldest schools in Nepal, this countries to monirorprogress towarcLs the compound perimeter wall on Sunday 18 was established by Krishna Prasad 'vlillennium Development Goals (tvll.)Gs) September. l<oi rala inl929. • NEW SPOTLIGHT NEWSMAGAZINE IS ept. 30, 201~ 3 E<DNOMIC BRIEF and Bangladesh, visited Kathmandu to consult with the new government, political party leaders, and senior government rialt!l ~am fC:r.