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Growing frustration in the enthusiastic mirror
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22-year-old Darpan Kharal of Panchapuri Municipality-9 Vidyapur Surkhet is a name that keeps coming up in the news from time to time in this area. During his school life, he amazed everyone by making small devices like water heating device, remote control car, automatic light that turns on at night and turns off automatically during the day. Inquisitive Kharal always stood first in competitions like science fair held in school.
While studying in class 9, he spent a month watching YouTube and made a buggy car. He remembers that at that time he used motorcycle engines, old tires and iron materials to make a two-seater car. The cost of which reached Rs. 5 lakh. The buggy car made by him was inaugurated by the then Minister of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment of Karnali Province, Nandsingh Budha.
Minister Budha also said that the provincial government will purchase the car at the cost of its construction and keep it in the museum. But later he was forced to sell the car at the price of Kawadi when the government did not care. The car made with an investment of 5 lakhs, he took out some important items and sold it to Kawadi for 8000. He made a grass cutting machine with Jhalakraj Joshi, who was studying for a bachelor's degree in agricultural science, using items he had taken out of cars before selling them at Kawadi. Cutting grass and straw is being done with this electric machine.
Darpan's hustle to do something was not over yet. He had seen hand machines for weaving tarjali in the village. After knowing that the main cost would be 4 to 5 lakhs, he was worried that he could make a better machine at a lower price. He prepared a wire mesh weaving machine by assembling various materials from various directions. Initially he made a manual machine and later upgraded it to a semi-automatic machine. He said, "Initially, this machine which was made at a cost of 80,000 has already cost 300,000."
When making this machine, he had to rush to assemble the necessary materials. He got the goods from India through Amazon, an online trading company, through an Indian broker. Buying goods in this way made the price more expensive for him. After making the machine, he initially wove and sold 200 quintals of jali. But now he is sitting empty as there is no order for Jali.
Darpan, who is busy making new devices, is disappointed nowadays. He is fed up with the fact that his work is not appreciated and innovation is not encouraged in Nepal. He said, "There is no official authority for machines made by people like this." Can't even be sold. Another thing was that the buggy work had to be sold at the price of Kawadi because the government would buy it first. Investing from home did not always come up. So now I have planned to go abroad.'
