Trying to hand over the structures to the private sector by publishing the formation order through the gazette when tax profits are generated by creating structures is a big political corruption and abuse of state power.
The government is making arrangements to lease 6 specific structures including Dharahara to the private sector by publishing the 'Special Structure Operation and Management Development Committee (Formation Order)' in the Gazette. Looking at it, it seems that only 6 structures will be given to the private sector. But there are many theoretical questions within this process.
If Dharahara is to be left as an archeological and cultural structure, then why Godavari Sunrise Assembly Hall, Jhapo View Tower, Butwal International Exhibition Center were built? What purpose is it made for? The matter is very simple, the view tower of Jhapa is built to show miracles in the constituency of KP Sharma Oli.
Bishnu Paudel, who has become finance minister many times, has built an international exhibition center in Butwal to show miracles. It is simply exploitation of the state under the guise of power. This money could also have been spent on managing squatter settlements in Jhapa or Butwal. But by building a view tower and a meeting hall, it was tried to make the development more flamboyant. Oli and Paudel tried to increase their reputation. What is the commission that comes from making it? The first benefit is already there. They are calculating the profit that will come in the process of giving the second lease. It became a matter of profiting from the same work many times. It is very difficult to predict what structures will be taken over by the private sector if this wrong process takes its course. It cannot be said at what speed this vehicle will run. But this much can be said, it is sure that this car will feed the private sector and starve the people.
is the target community in the action of development. If this work is done, who and how will benefit? Who would benefit from these view towers and auditoriums? What studies are based on research? How do you think it works? That's why it can be said that such projects are born from the selfishness of the leader and middleman.
Real agendas of development must be born from the womb of lack of community and struggle. What can we learn from this incident? But we are very behind in learning. Even in the past, even though there are examples in front of us of the state not benefiting from giving structures like children's temples to the private sector, our government is not ashamed to do such a thing. From development, federalism and any point of view, this case cannot be confirmed.
The biggest question is what is our model of development. Is it our development model that the state spends billions and prepares infrastructure and opens the way for the private sector? First of all, large view towers or auditoriums are not a priority in our current development process. We bring billions worth of rice from outside. The priority of our development should be local production. Now not only ordinary people, 80 percent of medical doctors go for foreign employment, our priority should be job creation. It is not just a matter of renting out the five specific structures to the private sector, the main question is the methodology of development. We have explained the methodology of development by linking it to power. Development is defined by the powerful. So-called development has taken place only among the powerful. Development does not determine power. Development is determined by need and context. There is still a lot of work to be done to take the issue of development from the powerful and bring it to the people. Such specific structures have demanded such debates.
is how we identify the real agendas that underpin development. Its biggest danger is to lead development down a deviant path. The basic path of development has been set for the profit of few people. In this sense, it is necessary to have enough debate to bring the development in the right direction. Now our development does not demand big infrastructure, be it an international airport or a view tower. How to capture the pace and rhythm of development and community? This can be done with great concern within the process of the current specific structure. The main question for leaders is to transform the physical infrastructure-centric development into people-centric development.
But the government is eager to show the spectacle of the View Tower. The government should support the private sector in infrastructure. It is natural. If the private sector wants to promote tourism in a remote area, it is the government's duty to provide electricity, build roads, and provide communication facilities. But trying to hand over the structures to the private sector by publishing the formation order through the gazette when the tax profit is coming by creating the structures is a big political corruption. Abuse of state power. It is a step taken to feed the private sector by making the above model of development haphazardly over the actual development. The process of development in an unholy alliance between the state and the private sector always overshadows real agendas. There are similar community agendas in development. They are lost somewhere on the ground floor. View Tower has destroyed all the agendas of Damak. Local and state governments have their own agendas. All those agendas were made to be useless and the View Tower was built. It hides the true agendas of its most difficult developments. Brings out fake agendas. This is what our long development process has done so far. This is an example. What we need to debate now is the real agenda of development. Marginalized communities are on the agenda. An agenda like View Tower is only a means to eat the commission of the private sector and leaders.
did not have to create these structures. Became a leader. Became in the circle of commissions. But still it is better to transfer it to the local government than to give it to the private sector. Local government is close to these structures. The local government can make a strategy for the protection, management and use of these structures. Instead, the federal government can ask the local government for procedures to operate such structures. The local government should provide procedures in an understandable manner. The procedures of the local government should be discussed and handed over to the local government. Now the question can be raised, why give such structures built by the federal government to the local government? We are at the beginning of federalism. The role of the federal government should be to strengthen the financial management of local governments. This is the basic principle of federalism. On the other hand, giving to the local government is sometimes better than giving to the private sector. In fact, such structures should be under the local government, which will open a long-term financial path for the local government. Increase the managerial capacity of the local government. The local government cannot and should not build such large physical infrastructures. The income of such infrastructures
can work on poverty alleviation in their area. The federal government should be ready to provide financial support to the local government for a short period of time while operating such structures. But it should be periodic.
In principle, wherever such specific infrastructures are to be built, they should be built after consulting with the local government. But our association does not seek to practice such federalism. Sangha thinks he is very big and wise. He wields a power dozer. In federalism, the dozer of the center is not to be used on the states and local governments. The association is a facilitator of state and local government. But even today, the Sangh, which stands in the central mentality, wants to run the baton to the local government and the state government.
It can't all come together right now. At least if such structures are handed over to the local government, it will bring the rhythm. Such specific structures may not have been the priority of the local government. The priority of the local government may have been different. At present, the typical way for specific structures is to hand them over to local governments. Instead, it is a hassle for the local government. It is a wasteful task to manage what is unnecessary. But the local government also needs to think from a positive angle instead of thinking from the point of trouble. Whatever happened, we should take a view that this should not happen again. A policy should be taken for the use of such structures.
We are practicing federalism. One of the basic principles of federalism is that development is not imposed, such specific structures are imposed from above. This is the opposite of development. Now we have the development path
should be removed. When the path of development is changed, the community presents its own agendas based on its interests. Such agendas are implemented and advocated by state governments and local governments. The federal government advances the process of development according to the spirit of the community, local government and state government. Development is not a matter of coaching. It is not a matter of top-down giving. The foundation of community will be strengthened by analyzing the needs and context. This process does not lead us to the right destination.
If we do not think of development in the rhythm of federalism, then we will suffer from repeating the bad results of centralization. One of the main goals of federalism is to rethink the pattern of development. To put it more simply, yesterday we were in the process of developing from top to bottom, federalism holds the view that it will be reversed. Reversal assumptions are bottom-up development assumptions, strategies, and actions. Above is only to support it.
Federalism means not only three levels of government, but also a change in the strategy of recognition of development. It is a big joke to entrust these structures to the private sector. It is an insult to federalism.
