Sunday, 09 November 2008

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  Finance Minister calls Nepalis home...

  I'm not sure if it's just the person who wrote this article, or if it's actually the finance minister - but this article shows the depth of the idiocy of the people running this country... wow. There is a growing trend among young Nepalis to leave the country in search of work and opportunity.  This was the finance minister's plea to bring them back home:
  

  Come back home, Bhattarai to NRNs
  

  Kantipur Report

  KATHMANDU, Nov 9 - Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai on Saturday urged Nepali people living abroad and considering settling there to extend a helping hand for the economic development of the country instead of roaming around in foreign lands in search of opportunity.

  Dr. Bhattarai also urged people still in the country to give up any idea of going abroad but instead join hands with the government and build a new and prosperous nation. He said the country could achieve a major breakthrough in economic progress, like in the developed countries, by utilising its huge natural resources.

  "Let's return and do something good for the country," he said. "We are probably roaming around here and there without understanding and realising the potential of our resources. Our inner soul will haunt us if we do not return to the country." He conceded that the country is poor despite having huge resources.

  Bhattarai, who had proposed an ambitious budget for this fiscal year, said the government has identified certain sectors, including tourism, to boost the economy. "We can gain much benefit from this sector," he said. "I have reached a conclusion --- after traveling in some foreign countries -- that there is no such a beautiful country anywhere else in the world. This is a true heaven on earth." 

  Constituent Asse-mbly member Arzu Rana Deuba, however, called on the government to create a favorable environment for those who would like to remain in the country, saying that nobody would think of going abroad when there was a good environment right here.

  Bhattarai and Rana were speaking at a book release function in the capital. At the function, Bhattarai, Rana and others jointly released three books--The Annapurna Circuit from the Air, To Go or Not to Go to the USA and Everest from the Air -- written by instructor pilot and noted aerial photographer Bed Upreti.

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