While King Birendra’s pledge for raising the living standard of Nepalese people to the “Asian level” by 2000 (Baral, 1987) drew some attention in the past, there have been some exercises lately for developing vision for Nepal (Sharma et al. (eds.), 2012; NPC-ADB, 2016). Sharma et al. (eds.) (2012) presented a quite elaborative discussion on […]

DURGA D POUDEL, Professor and Assistant Director School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Louisiana, USA Introduction: As the 2015 Constitution federalized administrative and governance structure of Nepal into seven provinces and 753 local units with devolution of significant authorities to provincial and local governments, discussion on restructuring of National Planning Commission (NPC) in […]

Bhubanesh Kumar Pradhan, Ex-Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of Nepal Nepal had entered into agreement with India on implementation of 4 Projects. Mahakali Agreement (1920) Koshi Agreement (1954) Gandak Agreement (1959) Mahakali Treaty (1996) Of these, Mahakali Treaty (1996) could not make much head-way due to untenable demand raised by the Indian side regarding […]

Bhubanesh Kumar Pradhan, Ex-Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of Nepal Nepal has four World Class Rivers. They are Koshi, Gandaki (Narayani), Karnali and Mahakali. In total, Nepal has more than 6000 rivers. Each river has some development potential, with some more and others less. The total annual surface runoff draining the country from these […]