When talking about development, there is a famous saying in Nepal in recent years, 'Development has gone up, people have gone down.' It is the responsibility of the government to provide equal facilities to the people living in the geography of the country. Therefore, the wave of development in mountains and hills in relatively difficult geographical areas has been a bit intense in recent times.

When the modern excavators, bulldozers, etc. imported from Nepal for construction started digging roads in Bhirpahara, we took it as a wave of development. Due to the mentality that development in Nepal means roads, now everyone's focus is on bringing roads to homes. 

The most prosperous development in Nepal is on the road itself. Leaders who lead roads to villages and make roads gravel and pitch have become popular. There is praise for the people's representative who built the bridge in the village. But after the construction of the road, we have failed to make a far-reaching plan of what we will import and export from it. It is necessary to review the usefulness of the road after the government of all three levels has built it. 

After the first local level elections, the local levels of Lumbini province spent about 90 percent of the total development budget on road construction. The data shows that the remaining amount was spent on infrastructure including buildings. There is a gap between development and population. As a result, some of our structures have reached a state of disrepair rather than being used. Be it plains or mountains, mountains or valleys, development is not for geography, but for people. Therefore, wherever there is development, there must be human habitation. Where infrastructure is provided, it is important to create an environment where people can live. 

Lately, the budget is being discouraged by building more structures than necessary due to the rush to build roads and bridges in the country. An example of this is the three motorable bridges connecting Okhaldhunga near the Ghurmi section under the Madhyapahari Pushpalal Highway. How necessary were these bridges at a distance of about 2/3 km? How many cars will cross that bridge every day or how many people will cross that bridge every day? This is an example. We have created many such development conditions. 

All three levels of government and the party that sends them to the government, when making plans, talk about roads, bridges, schools and health centers. But people don't care. The question may arise - all these infrastructures are for people! Let's say it's for their own votes. In the allocation of policies, plans and budgets, the concerned party either forgets the list of people's evaluation or puts it in the back. 

When the government made plans ignoring the population, today huge physical structures have been built in some places but there are no people to use them. Somewhere the number of people is large but the physical structures are getting smaller. Why people and physical structures are not compatible? The main reason for this is that some of our plans were selected and implemented in a hurry. We could not or did not want to do a post construction consumer assessment. After reaching Argakhanchi district, which is highly affected by external migration, Chief Minister of Lumbini Chetnarayan Acharya definitely did not announce that such a campaign should be conducted. 

This declaration of Acharya is not linked to the Panchayatal program, but it is appropriate to apply it with a new definition. There are no cars or people walking on the new and quality pitches in the hilly areas. However, the process of lengthening the road has not stopped. Migration is a matter of human choice. It is also not a preventable topic. 

How to make good use of these mountain infrastructures made for people? For this, the government should come up with a policy and program for the utilization of barren land. Large farms should be developed in the hills. Crops should be planted when the soil and climate are suitable. As a result, the roads are used for the transportation of farm workers, fertilizers, seeds, pesticides and other materials used in the farms. Not only that, after a large amount of agricultural production, a large number of trucks and tractors will enter the village for its trade. Large scale agricultural production will demand industry in villages. As a result, employment opportunities will also be created. After this situation, even if those who left the village yesterday do not return, other new people will go up to the mountain. The mountains will hum again.

National Planning Commission member Dr. Prakash Kumar Shrestha has proposed that the private sector should be encouraged to utilize the hills and infrastructure that were vacated a few days ago. He proposed that by attracting the private sector to the mountains, villages, valleys, commercial cultivation of vegetables, fruits, herbs, processing industry, agriculture-based tourism and business can become self-sufficient in agriculture and strengthen the economy. 

The Planning Commission is the main place for making development plans in Nepal. If this proposal of Shrestha, a member of the same organization, is included in the next year's policy plan and budget and implemented, this atmosphere will be created throughout the country. 

Just like yesterday when vast land was cleared in Terai due to rapid industrialization, now the hills are also cleared. Infrastructure has been reached. Land is cheap. The government should call upon local and foreign industrialists to open agriculture dependent and other industries in such places. There will also be a proper utilization of the mountain structures built with billions-trillions of investment. Gradually such industries will also invite people to live in the mountains.

In 2047, with the restoration of the multi-party system, Nepal adopted a liberal policy. We made education open. We opened health. There was no school for people in remote places and they had to be illiterate. As a result, there was a competition to open schools wherever they could reach. At this time, the government also introduced an easy policy to open private schools.

Boarding schools opened in villages. Nanibabu found it easy to learn English language. The question is, as many schools as we opened or allowed to open, were they necessary for the long term? We didn't think that way. As Nepal expanded its schools on a massive scale, the number of school-age children in Nepal began to decline. From the point where the number of children was reduced, we accelerated the approval of new schools, the effect of which is seen today. 

In the 2048 census, for the first time, the number of 5-9 year olds was higher than the 0-4 year old population. This data had given a clear message that the fertility rate in Nepal has decreased. There were more schools, fewer students. The government is burdened with teachers without students. Because in schools there are no students, only teachers. Let's close the school, locals protest. Election politics will be fatal if the school is closed amid local residents' protests. On the other hand, students have migrated to cities or Terai. Where there are few teachers. The students are numerous. It should not be delayed at all to balance the teacher-student imbalance caused by migration and declining fertility rates through government policy. 

In fact, every geographical and administrative unit is inhabited by people with different demographic characteristics. For example, women, men, caste, religion, language, child, youth, elderly, tribal etc. These are the demographic characteristics of the person. The state should have carefully studied and analyzed such characteristics of the population. When the society turns to one side and the politics to the other, the country does not get good governance, nor development. People's desire to be prosperous and happy is also not fulfilled. Therefore, it is necessary to get the attention of politics on the basic features of society. Parliamentarians should at least keep a statistical account of the social characteristics of their constituencies.

How many senior citizens are there in the society? The leader of the party should have a minimum knowledge of what the number of this group will be in the next 20 years. Based on that, federal to local governments should allocate social security allowances. Similarly, if the fact of how many children there are, it can be determined only if the establishment of 'Child Care Center', Monteshwari School, Children's Hospital. What kind of people are living in the border that the local people's representative is leading? You have to take care of what their needs are.