House of Representatives member KP Khanal said that if development is only considered when a bulldozer reaches a village and clears a road, then it is ironic that young people are leaving to sell their labor abroad through the same route.
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The second phase of the Karnali Festival in Birendranagar has been brainstorming ideas on the environment, development and entrepreneurship.
In the fourth debate on Sunday, ‘Development Path: Nature’s Flow’, speakers emphasized the need to link conservation with prosperity. House of Representatives member KP Khanal said that if development is only considered as the arrival of a dozer in a village and the opening of a road, it is ironic that young people are going abroad to sell their labor through that road. ‘Karnali has a fixed deposit of water, oxygen, herbs and culture,’ he said. ‘If we change our mindset and develop the geography of Karnali as it wants, it will be sustainable.’
If we protect what is in nature and develop it wisely, there will be no risk, said Dr. Naresh Subedi, member-secretary of the National Nature Conservation Trust. ‘We should use nature wisely and move towards an integrated conservation and development model,’ he said, ‘There is a need to design the infrastructure of today by looking at the environmental conditions 50 years from now.’
Rupak Thapa, Senior Divisional Engineer of the Karnali Provincial Government, said that there is a wave of road digging everywhere because roads are also the infrastructure of other infrastructures. ‘Roads are supposed to connect other development sources,’ he said, ‘but wherever the dozer goes, we have suffered destruction.’ Pawan Thapa, Associate Professor of Midwestern University, said that ‘greenery areas’ and biological pathways of wildlife should be taken into account while constructing roads.
Speaking at the next session ‘Flight of Entrepreneurship: The Joys and Sorrows of Local Entrepreneurs’, hotelier Poshan Regmi said that despite Karnali having immense potential, cumbersome government procedures, lack of quality raw materials and state indifference are discouraging entrepreneurs.
Gemstone entrepreneur Sheela Nepali complained that the government has closed mines, making it difficult to obtain raw materials. Similarly, surgical entrepreneur Kalpana Bista said that the monopoly of only those with access to banking loans should end.
Entrepreneurs complained that they could not fulfill even orders from the international market due to the lack of modern machines and skilled manpower.
