5. Karnali Province of Nepal is made up of the most part of the former Mid-western Development Region that
remained most backward throughout the 3 decades of regional practice. This is the only region without
its border with India. The Terai part of the development region has been detached from this province
now. What might be its challenges? Discuss and list few points.
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Karnali is the largest province of Nepal with an area of 24,453 km2(9,441 sq mi). The province is surrounded by Gandaki Province in the east, Province No. 4. The province has occupied higher mountain land of north and mid-hills of Nepal. It contains Kubi Gangri, Changla, and Kanjiroba mountains in north.
The Karnali region is one of the remotest and most undeveloped regions of Nepal. The region is characterized by widespread poverty, unemployment, food scarcity, and insecurity, malnutrition, starvation, inequality, isolation, and underdevelopment. The region is also mired in gender inequality, human rights violations such as exploitation of children, especially girls, high child, and maternal mortality, poor economic performance, and such other adverse factors.
The Karnali region has tough topography. Hills and mountains stand as an impediment to initiating development works there. Besides topography, other factors responsible for underdevelopment, inter alia, are a weak business sector, atavistic agricultural practices, lack of modern technology, demography, and, of course, political nonchalance. Population density is also low in Karnali Province due to which developmental work is not done at a rapid pace.
Day-by-day people of this region are going abroad, creating a loss of human resources. Major influencing factors comprise acute and chronic poverty, severe.
The level of poverty is high. Non-existent service delivery also makes the life of Karnali difficult. Access to education, housing, and other basic needs is limited to rich people. Poverty is rampant forcing thousands of people to migrate elsewhere. People migrate to other places due to lack of various facilities like hospitals, a good education system, communication, transportation, sanitation, etc. People move from there for a better lifestyle and live a luxurious life.
The government is not accountable to its people. Corruption at all levels of government and the politicization of all aspects of society has led to chaos and disorganization in every sector. Corruption has taken place in everywhere in every field of work.
Karnali is mostly dependent on outside assistance to feed its people, to provide a minimum level of social services, and to guarantee even modest economic activities. Karnali districts have minimum internal revenue.
The economy of Karnali was somehow balanced before the eighties. After 30 years, the economy of Karnali is totally dependent on the outside and unbalanced. The workforce is uneducated and unskilled. Infrastructure is underdeveloped.
Challanges are:
Capital: Provinces are in dire need of money; each province need at least one international stadium, airport, hospital, university and such vital infrastructure but they lack resources to build them; even province parliament and related offices have been setup in old unused and leased buildings, money speaks everywhere.
Manpower: We have mass unemployment but brain drain has become so severe that we will be in acute need of experienced men for running provincial administration and mainly development works. To develop tourism, agriculture, forests, etc we need men; irony is our men are helping build Qatar, Saudi, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Europe, US and Canada. We need those men here.
Corruption: We may feel that the elected representatives are in pressure to work, but things are not going as we see. For example, mayor in our municipality (ironically I voted for him) voiced against sand mining from river until he was elected. After being elected, he closed the mines for 45 days exactly but has allowed all of them to reopen, some not even registered. We all know why.
Willingness: Does anyone see willingness to act, to do unprecedented works in any provincial leaders? No. They are taking things for granted. Many provincial leaders and ministers have already visited abroad in the name of “watching the step by step method of development”. But has anyone said what they learned, did they even take some experts in their team to learn those works except their bhai, bhatija and sala? One industrialist recently said, “Our corrupt and narcissist leaders are shame for the country and that exactly is the problem with provinces now.”