Malnutrition in Karnali federalism

There is malnutrition in Karnali, statistics are coming out for thirty years. On the other hand, research reports say that the food grains of Karnali, Kagno, Chino, Kodo and Marsi are the best in the world. Why is there malnutrition in a place where the world's most nutritious food is produced? It is important to find an answer to this question. To find the answer, we have to go back a bit to history.

During the unification of Nepal, during the expansion of the Gorkha state, Karnali was the state that challenged the Gorkha state the most. In the third time, the victory was achieved by many tikdams. Karnali's leadership was forced into exile in Tibet. Power was centralized in Kathmandu. Karnali became leaderless. Karnali could not communicate with Kathmandu. Karnali considered it an extension of the Gorkha kingdom and assembled a resistance. The centralized Gorkhali regime of Kathmandu could not understand Karnali. Although the Gorkha kingdom expanded to Karnali, Karnali was not only self-sufficient, Karnali sold food and livestock to Tibet. The amount of centralization was increasing. Kathmandu could not recognize the geography and culture of Karnali. Production in Karnali began to decline. Tibet became an autonomous region. According to its nature and culture, the rhythm of development was caught. Where is Tibet today, where is Karnali! Yesterday Karnali had a big San in front of Tibet. Karnali was a producer as well as a trader.

The politics of salt and rice

The production in Karnali gradually started to decline. Because Nepal's agricultural policies and strategies could not touch Karnali. Karnali is an arid and semi-arid region. That is, a place with different air, water, temperature, soil. It is a unique geography. Centralized agricultural policies could not understand this. On the other hand, no strategy was taken to increase local production. Instead, Kathmandu showed love and started sending rice to Karnali from 2029. It was a way to spread panchayat politics in villages. This strategy became stronger in 2036 when the Panchayat got more votes. Karnali, which exported food to Tibet yesterday, was made to look to the sky to see when the rice would arrive by ship today. And another comment was made – the people of Karnali are unconscious. are lazy Kathmandu should send rice. In this way, Karnali was led on the path of self-pride by the rulers.

Karnali had a kind of relationship with Tibet. Karnali used to bring salt from Tibet and sell other things. Kathmandu came under the influence of Delhi and started saying that there is no iodine in Tibetan salt. If you eat that salt, you will have a lot of diarrhea. Salt politics added another thunderbolt to Karnali. By cutting the relationship between the people and the people, the relationship between the ruler and the ruler was established. Now, not the people of Karnali, but the rulers of Kathmandu, made relations with Tibet. China also has a role in this. The relationship between Karnali and Tibet was completely severed. Karnali was made dependent on Kathmandu. In history, Kathmandu has never been positive with Karnali, nor has Karnali ever been with Kathmandu. From history till today, Karnali could not communicate with Kathmandu. Kathmandu made such a rich place to keep and give food. Sends poor quality pulses and rice. Karnali says he is malnourished because he is unconscious. This series is ongoing. Relief should be distributed in emergency situations such as fires, floods and landslides. However, the relief program has been running since fifty years ago. After all, those who eat rice will get it. The knot of politics stuck in the rice. A leader who sends a lot of rice is considered to be capable. Panchayat politics is also bursting with multi-party, republican and federalism. What happened to sending rice to Karnali? Karnali's self-esteem and self-respect were lost, local products were excluded. Rice was ranked first and local nutritious food was ranked second. A new class of rice eaters was born. Honor, respect and prestige were attached to rice. Local produce was almost impossible to eat. The sovereign rule of the world is that - what is not eaten, is not respected, its production decreases. Gradually, market production started in Karnali. Karnali became even more excited in front of the catchy slogans of the market. Eating noodles has become a matter of honor. The practice of making love to a newborn daughter by feeding her with noodles grew. Now the rice and noodles started. It still exists.

Karnali within the web of development

After the change of 2046, the development organization reached Karnali. Karnali became a breeding ground for indulgence, disease and illiteracy. Rice was delivered in a new way as food for work. A new chapter of old ideas has begun again. Development organizations started distributing donations. Karnali started beating again. Development institutions looked kind. They began to share new seeds, which did not grow, did not grow. Development organizations started building physical infrastructure. The villagers started building a building to hold a meeting. They used to hold meetings in the courtyard, now they started playing chess in that building. When I reached Mugu during the investigation of Karnali, I once asked - 'Why didn't you hold a meeting in that building?' The local replied - 'It was not built for us. We do the discussion at Chautara. There is work to be done to play Bhavan Tas.'A tahrah has been built in Kalikot for the collection of agricultural produce. After two years of no agricultural produce, a local man opened a distillery. I asked a woman - 'Why did you allow a distillery to be placed in this agricultural produce store?' First, if there is a program to increase production, it will take a lot of work to collect. This is a tower built not because of us, but because of Hakim.'

There are thousands of examples in Karnali where development priorities are not met. But again, Karnali is blamed - even after giving development, he could not use it. are unconscious are illiterate. Again Karnali was forced to bear the new blame of the Vikases. Developments do not want to see – how historically Karnali became leaderless? How Karnali was exploited by Kathmandu. How Hinduized and language-culture lost. However, after the start of formal education, the Hinduization that was done all over Nepal became more forceful in Karnali. Vikas is not interested. Without understanding the political systematic marginalisation, one might say that Karnali fell behind without reaching the road. A road should connect Kathmandu. The road has reached now, but Karnali has not yet been connected to Kathmandu. Basically, Karnali should have been connected with the politics of Kathmandu. It had to be done, a thousand other things were done. All of them made Karnali feel inferior. The flute of 'uneducated, unconscious, lazy' continued to play.

Union's Ahrnakhtan

Karnali A debate about federalism was held by Nepal. There was and is no way out of the marginalization of Karnali by any other method. But there was a mess in the demarcation of the province. It destroyed the erstwhile Karnali region, which extended to Bajura, Bajhang. Whether Surkhet was suitable for the capital of Karnali was not debated. There are many Karnalis within Karnali. How does the current Karnali state look at the upper Dolpa or the Hilsa of Humla? Again, the danger of Surkhet becoming another Kathmandu is increasing. The Karnalis within the Karnalis are marginalised. Karnali has a unique context of economically, culturally tribal community. The Dalits of Karnali are in double trouble. One is that Karnali is landless, on top of that being a Dalit, being out of reach of education for years. How the Karnali region views this letter of exploitation is a big question. This question has not been answered.

Marginal Karnali within Karnali is not established as a special region, autonomous and protected area within the federal government, if the government units are not established, the cycle of exploitation will continue in another form. A comprehensive study is necessary for this. It cannot be done in a storm, in emotion, in passion. But Nepal's federalism is not in this rhythm. In a way, Nepal's federalism is like a sick child at birth, which no one has taken care of. As long as it is too late to create a government structure that will judge the Karnali within the Karnali, we will have to hear the cries of malnutrition and rice in Karnali again.

Now looking at the Karnali region. It is in the constitution. is in practice. But not in the interior. The province is not the same as the province. The province has not recognized the local characteristics of its development. The union is in disarray. The path of institutional development has not been taken without exploring regional characteristics. What are the strategies to increase local production, what are the variety of those strategies, there are four geographies within Karnali. There is a lake, what to do in the lake? There are two parts in the middle, below is the paddy growing part. How, where, what is the strategy to increase production? There is no emphasis on animal husbandry, food, or fruit production. In a way, if we look at the program, federalism has not yet come. How to expand the regional economy, what is the foundation of the local economy, as much research as should have been done, nothing has been done. Programs are old format.

There is a state government in Surkhet. That's why federalism seems to have come. It is necessary for Karnali, which has been subjected to great political and historical marginalization, to find an original way. Within that path, it is necessary to discuss the industrialization of Karnali. Since history people of Karnali lived by going to Kalapahad. It is still ongoing. Gulf countries have been added. Karnali is a place where resources are abundant, employment is few. Can we not create jobs in Karnali? This is what federalism is needed for. Again, the union has made Karnali province politically malnourished. Unless political malnutrition is eliminated, it is certain that health malnutrition will not be eliminated.