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| Kathmandu, Wednesday October 09, 2002 Ashwin 23, 2059. |
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People’s plight
It was reported in your daily that scores of
youth in the Maoist-hit Rolpa district continue to leave for foreign countries in search
of work. This is pathetic. We also have some parts in the Karnali zone, where people are
dying of hunger.Then there are the ex-Kamaiyas in Kailali and other districts who are
grinding under acute poverty and unemployment. They are left with no options but to slip
back to slavery from which they were supposedly liberated a couple of years back by a
bunch of political leaders at Singha Durbar. Hundreds of people are dying of preventable
diseases in the remote areas. Children barely get to see the light of education. Such
being the dismal scenario, the public have become disenchanted with democracy which is
theoretically based on the principle of welfare of the people. Given the new turn of
political development, one can expect positive changes, or at least a zeal to work for the
betterment of the people. This can also be the right time to correct the follies of
democracy and put it on to the right track.
Subir KC
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