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Civic Education: A Footnote to Democratic Governance in Nepal

Dev Raj Dahal Modern organization is founded on the notion of social contract between the state and its citizens. The equality of citizenship has created a basis for equal participation of all the citizens in the governance process in which the state is expected to command sovereignty and to provide a good life by means […]

Education in Nepal

Ms. Nistha Aryal, I.SC Second Year (Trinity International Secondary School), Nepal Why are we lagging behind? Education is a major tool that provides knowledge, skill, procedure, information and empowers people to know their rights and responsibilities towards their family, society and the nation. Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and […]

Impact of Harnessing Water Resource on Sovereignty

Ratna Sansar Shrestha, FCA’, Nepal Nepal is not endowed with natural resources like fossil fuel, precious metal, high value stones and other minerals. Nature’s best gift to Nepal is water resource, which has yet to be optimally harnessed. Harnessed properly, it can draw Nepal’s lifeline leading to her prosperity. Water resource is important not only […]

Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Nepal

–Dev Raj Dahal The information revolution has challenged the concepts and paradigms, which traditionally shaped the culture of centralized planning. There is growing recognition of the sovereignty of people, making them both shaper and creator of their own history. This changed environment is pregnant with new possibilities for direct democracy. In more general terms, the […]

The role of civil society and democratization in Nepal

-Professor Ananda P. Shrestha, (Tribhuwan University) In the ongoing political circus that the Nepali people have to bear helplessly leads one to ask: Why has the Civil Society of this country suddenly lost voice? It hardly needs mention that Civil Society in the true sense has played a catalytic role in different parts of the […]