So who's going to be the next governor of Nepal Rastra (Central) Bank?

UML and others had proposed and agreed on these three people as nominees:

1) Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwoda
2) Dr. Parthi Timilsina
3) Mr. Bhattarai, a Rastra Bank insider and the present Deputy Governor.

BUT

Deuba, being Deuba, rejected all these names and is now pushing for Dr. Bimal Koirala (who, like most people in Nepal, writes poetry on the side) -- the present Cabinet Secretary and former Finance Secretary.

Interestingly, Koirala, a civil servant, has long been an investor in a private business college (Kathmandu College of Management) along with PM's wife, Mrs. Arzu Deuba.

Evidence?

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KCM Board of Directors

Dr. Shankar Sharma, Chairperson
Dr. Arzu Deuba
Dr. Bimal Koirala
Neel Kantha Upreti
Bishnu Raj Adhikari, Principal
Vinay Kumar Sharma

SOURCE: http://www.kcm.edu.np/kcm_today/facts.php
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Questions:

1) GENERAL: When civil servants, who are supposed to be regulators, serve as directors in private sector for-profit businesses (such as private colleges, etc), how does one define that phrase 'conflict of interest' in Nepal?

2) SPECIFIC: When Dr. Koirala is a business partner of the PM's wife, why wouldn't
the PM push to make Dr. Koirala the next governor of Nepal's Rastra Bank no matter what others say?

oohi
ashu

Recommended persons are eligible for governor?s post: DyPM

KOL Report

KATHMANDU, Jan 8 - Deputy Prime Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari has claimed that all the three persons recommended by the committee under him are legally eligible to head Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB).

Adhikari was reacting to a statement issued by the Office of Attorney General, which said that the existing laws disallows National Planning Commission member Dr. Yubaraj Khatiwada to head the central bank.

Speaking to the journalists in Biratnagar Saturday, DyPM Adhikari said: ?The Governor appointed will have nothing to do with his stay in the Deuba government,? adding that it was not him but his party that enjoyed the right to decide whether or not to be a part of the government. (snn)

There may be many reasons on why Dr. Koirala sud or sud not be a governor, however, just being a business partner with PM's wife would not have compelled Deuba to support him so ferociously. I heard that foreign donors want BK as well ( I dont know why).

The issue regarding a civil servant engaging in profit-making private venture definitely points towards conflict of interest. But again, I wonder how much a Chief Secretary earns in Nepal, not to mention other civil servants. Morally, its true that they sud nt e engaged in private profit-making business, but I dont think taht would be practically viable.

And whatever happend to Ram Babu Panta? He is not even on the list.

You see, it's difficult for young economists or interested-in-economics Nepalis to be openly critical of senior (in terms of age) economists in Nepal. There is no safe perch
in Nepal from which one can question some of the works of senior economists.

If you start criticising older folks, without getting personal, for their professional
lapses, then, you effectively end up killing your own career prospects in Nepal.

And we Nepalis (as a few anecdotes on Sajha also prove) are known to hold vicious grudges for a long time to get even with those who have dared to slight us!

Most business journalists in Nepal are really khattam when it comes to digging
deeper into economic stories. Let's just say that there is no David Warsh or Paul Krugman equivalent even on a minor scale in Nepal, and leave it at that.

And lawyers' training in Nepal is so jhoor that most of our lawyers remain incompetent
to master the basics of economics, finance and accounting.

All this leaves the field wide open for a surprising group of heroes: India-trained Chartered Accountants (CAs) who, because of their rigorous training, can intimidate
the hell out of both Nepal-educated lawyers and inarticulate economists by throwing around a few numbers here and there.

In the developed world, accountants are just that: accountants. Only in Nepal, because of a lack of serious competition from lawyers and economists, CAs have emerged as,well, intellectuals.

Just my observations.

oohi
ashu

la una Nepal ma ni governor po hudo rahecha :O
lau bank ko ki kaha ko governor
first time sunya Nepal ma governor bhanne
Euta ko ta merai last name po rahecha :O

As usual, I react to the nonsense going on in the selection of RB Governor with a perspective, which you normally do not hear and consider, and my rhetorical questions:

1. How long can these leaders and vested interest be quarrelling among themselves to get the biggest share of their loot and protect their loot? Is the country?s interest really uppermost in their mind? I doubt.

2. Can you name a RB governor (Sharma, Rana, Thapa, Pant, Shrestha, Rawal, et al) who has done anything to improve the life of sadharan janata other than to warm the governor?s chair and look after the interest of himself, his family and friends, and to protect the vested interest of selected few?

3. I for one always am looking at the names of a Janajati when an appointment is announced. Is there any durdarshee Nepali out there?

4. Where is the role and participation of Janajati in the mainstream? What happened to the names like Tamang, Gurung, Rai, Limbu, Tharu, Magar and other in the Janajati? Do they not exist in Nepal or are they not Nepalis? Why should the big posts ALWAYS be reserved only for a selected few castes?

5. Obviously, from the happenings of the immediate past decade, and many decades before, the country is literally in the dadu panyou of a few selected castes and it is also obvious to the whole world that the country is going through the worst governance in the decade that gave the birth and standing to the Maoists rebels and has witnessed killing of over ten thousand Nepalis. Who will take the responsibility for it?

6. Do not tell me that the successive government in the last several decades did not prepare any capable individuals from the janajatis.

7. How long can the country be a loot of a few selected castes? Go ahead and have your own RB governor, have your own Maobadi rule and what not? Just know that the longer you keep the janajatis away from the mainstream, you are giving birth to a dissension that can potentially further alienate the Nepalis from Nepalis. Not a good sign for a country that is ravaged severely by the Maobadi movement.

The fight ought to be for the country, not Governor ko Laagi!

These are just my jhilkas.

Jhilka

k kura garnu yaar, tyo RB ko lagi governer ko pani. Jun jogi aaye pani kaanai chireko. Tilak Rawal le tanna kamai halyo, yeuta chora Australia ma paisa udaucha, arko 2005 ko mustang chadera hidhca US ma. Arko aayo bhene tesko chora switzerland ma padna jaane hola. Testa mula hari ko k kura garnu yaar. Ris uthera aaucha. Jo sukai aauoos, garne kehi hoina, tinkai ghar thulo hune ho. Tinkai chora le mustang chadera hidne huun. Gaali matra garna man lagcha. Jhilka broda, timro yo jana jaati ko kura chai malai maan parena. Mathi aauna lai fight garne ho, competition ma aaune ho, bhikh magne hoina. Aba bhanlau adhikar bhanera, tellai adhikar hoina bhikh bhanchu ma. Hindi ma khairati. Rudai gayera haami janajati, hami le pani adhikar paunu parcha bhanera huncha ? Khai Dr. Harka Gurung lai adhikar chahiyena. Garnu sarnu chaina janajaati.

Jai Nepal

LOL Harke Dai... Baru hamilai banawas na haina?

A Nepali Nomenklatura?

Eh Harkedai,

Tapaiko lekhai le dukha lagyo. Dukha lagyo ke bhannu, tapai le Nepal ma chalti ko sochai byakta garnabho. Testai dharana bhayera ta Nepal ubho nalageko. Desh kasari banau bhanne chhaina, kalle Mustang chadyo, kasko chhora kaha paddaichha, ani ma ra mero nata parne pani teha pugera kasari najayaj fayada uthau, aru jastai rata rat dhanwan banu, tei ho aile ko bikrit sochai.

Tapaiko janajati ko bhikh magne kura malai pachena. Tyo chanhi tapaile ali hepera boleko jasto lagyo. Janajati le kaile dekhi bhikh magna parne bhayo? Janajati le afnai desh ma yo bhikh magnu parne sthiti kanha bata srijana bhayo?

Maile rakheko kura ke bhane etika dashakharuma Governor wa aru uchha pad ka laagi government le koi janajati tayar garena ta? Garena wa bhayena bhane kina bhayena, tesai ma mero aghillo prashna ko jawaf khojna paryo. Adhikar ra bhikh lai tapaile eutai samjhinu bho ki?

Tapaile le janajati le bhik ko kura uthaunubho, fer tapailai tei prashna dohoryauchhu, kaile dekhi janajati le afnai deshma bhikh magne kura ayo, hah Harkedai?

Aba ayo tapaiko competition ko kura. Tes barema ta tapaile sabai nalayak bhanera bhanihalnu bho. Kaile Nepal ma real competition ko adhar ma niyukti hunchha ra?

Yanha tapai lai duita kura smaran garauna chahanchhu:

-Dr. Bimal Koirala, halko Mukhya Sachiv, le Nepal ko bureaucracy lai publicly sansarko worst bureaucracy bhanera label laidinu bhayeko chha.

-Lok Sewa Ayog ko hakim Dan Bahadur Shahi le 50,000 bhanda badi karmachari haru
kirtay pramanpatra -forged certificates - ko adhar ma jagir khairaheko anuman lagaunu bhayoko thiyo.

Kanha gayo tapaiko competion? Competition ko laagi khali mathi matra sochera hundaina, brother. Teska laagi adhar haru pani teyar parna parchha. Ti adharharu teyar parinda sabai lai equal opportunity dinaparchha, taba matra competition ko kura aunchha. Moobhut adharharu ko kura aile nagarum, tara pachhi awashayai aunla.

Puchharma, Harka Gurung lai matra Janajati ko euta novelty ko roop ma dekhayera bhayena. K tei eutai byakti matrai chhan janajati ko gahana Nepal ma? k bhaye ta aru, sabai asakchham nai chhan wa chhadaichhainan? Chhadaichhainan bhane tapaiko ko BHIKH magne kuro ra Maobadi ko agaman ko jawaf tesaima po chhan ki??? Ek chhan ghorlina parne dekhinchha.

Aile tapaiko janajati le BHIKH magne kura eti mai samapta gardaichhu. Feri bhetaula!

Aile lai civil ra sayyam bhayera pratyottar me eti udgar byakta gare. Paile tapaiko sunum, ani aru pani Jhilka tapai prati samarprit garnechhe.

Jhilka

Yo kura ma ma pani jhilka ji ko pakchya ma chhu. Harke ji, ma pani america ma 2005 ko mustang chadhchhu tara mero bau governor pani haina director pani haina, secretary pani haina ani minister pani haina ani businessman pani haina. I come from a middle class ani america ma dherai dukha garera yo stithi ma pugeko ho. Governor ko chhoro america ayo bhandaima bau ko paisa le mustang chadheko bhannu stupidity ho.

झिल्केको कुरा नि ठिक हो हर्केको कुरा नि ठिक हो।
अब यो मुस्तागं चढ्ने र धौलागिरी चढ्ने कुरा नि ठिक हो।

तर मैले नभुझ्या कुरा त मैले सोध्न पाएँ। हैन? कि पाउँदिन?

कुरो नम्बर १,
यो जनजाती भन्या कसलाई? बाहुन क्षेत्री यसमा अटाउने कि नअटाउने नि?
बाहुन क्षेत्री जनजाति हैन? हैन भने कसरी हैन?
बाहुन क्षेत्री गरिब छैनन्? पिछडिएका छैनन्?
एउटा गिरिजेलाई हेरेर मात्र हुन्छ?

अब कुरो नम्बर २,
जनजातीबाट गभर्नर बनेर नेपाल राष्ट्र ब्याकं सप्रिन्छ भनेर कुन आदारमा भन्न खोज्नु बा हो?

कुरो नम्बर ३
तपाइवले कसको नाम सिफारिस गर्नुहुन्छ भन्नुस् त ? र किन?

यसै जनजाती भनेर हगाडि समस्या तेर्साउन मात्र सजिलो छ। र यो फेसन चल्या छ।
निहित स्वार्तका लागि यस शब्दको दुरुपयोग भा छ। हो कि हैन ल बन्नुस् झिल्का जी?
हैन भने कसरी हैन?

Harke bro and jhilke bro duwai jana in a certain way both of them are wrong.Governer ko chora ya mantrii ko chora hudaima USA ma janee bitikai manag ho ki mustang ho chadnna payincha ra? Tyoo gadii chadne manche lai nai taha hola usle katii strugle garekoo cha bhanera.Nepal ma timi jo sukaiko chora hos bidesh ma gayepachi kahi na kataai dherai ya thoriii meheenaat ta garnai parcha sayed usle pani aafno mehenat le kamayera chadeko hola.
Ani k ho yo janajatiii bhannne?Jo sukai junai jati ko power ma aayepani government ramrarichalauna paryoo.Manche le manche lai kaati roop ma bhibhaajaan garnee? Kahile desh ko roop ma, kahilee jilla ko, roop ma kahile thau ko roop ma, kahilee jatii ko roop ma, kahile party ko roop ma, kahilee dharmaa ko roop ma. Sabaai eaakjuut hunu paaryoo.Eautaa matraa aaula le mutthii baandainaa, paach wota aaula chayincha..tesari matra eaak baanna sakincha ani eakataa ma baal huncha. "United we stand divided we fall". See and we are falling to the end of developement coz we all are divied in many ways ...some as communist some as congress some as maoist, beside that more divided in castes and much more divided in religions.Before when there was Panchyaat atleast i could go to each and every corner of Nepal without any fear of being abducated or killed by none other then own nepalese brothers.
So don't divided among us again with those janajatiis or whatever things.
adios.

Putali ji, tapai le dukha garnu bho, dherai barsa dekhi basnu bho, 2005 ko mustang chadnu bho. Ma hya kura gardai chu, governer rawal ko chora ko, jo ki kaam khasai dherai gardaina, downtown ma bascha, paisa udaucha ra mustang chadcha. Kosaile dukha garera baseko manche ko ma sarai ijjat garchu, 2005 ko mustang chadna khasai garo kura hoina, aafu le ta chadeko chaina tara 35000 jati parcha hola bhanne aumaan gardachu. Tyo byakti lai maile dherai najik bata chineko chu ra tesko kamai le tetro gadi hoina gadi nai kinna garo cha tesh mathi colorado ko college haru ali mahanga nai chan.

Aba jaau jhilka ji patti, maile bhikh ko artha pasupati ma basera paisa magne bhanna khojeko hoina, haami janajaati bhanera Pulchock campus ma seat magne, sarkari office ma seat magne, aascol ma gayera raajniti garne bhanna khojeko. Mero bichar ma nepal ma uchha taha ma pugna dui kura chahincha, dimag ta chahincha nai tesko saath saath ma source force pani chahincha. Pahila ko governer pani phd Dr ho, ghus khaye pani. Janajaati ko laagi bhanera thula thula post ma gai sake pachi, seat chuttyaidaina, ra yedi chuttyancha bhane ma nai tesko birod garch. Jana jaati sanga saayad contact chaina hola ra hune sanga qualification chaina hola. Jhilka ji le bhannu bho, nepal ma kati hajar chai nakkali certificate banayeka haru chan bhanera, ti nakkali certificate banaune haru chai NRB ko governer, athawa election commission ko commissioner, athawa Chief Justice chai hudainan, jun pad ko hya kura bhai raako cha.

Jai Nepal

DadaGiriji,

Tapaiko kura ni afnai thau ma theek huna sakchha.

Prasnako jawaf bywaharik tarkale hoina tara ulto prasnale nai dine bhe pachhi ma pani tessai garam.

Mero main bhannu ke bhane yi uchha padharu kewal duichar jaat ma nai seemit rahane prabitti kaile samma?

# 1 ko uttar: Sochai lai ali farakilo banaunuparyo. Desh ekduita jaat ko matra hoina. Janajati ko adhikar lai fashion bhanera kaile samma tarnay?

Chhan. Aru jaati pani garib chhan, nirdhan chhan. Pideet chhan. Awahelit chhan. Pichadieka chhan. Kalle bhanyo chhainan bhanera? Janajati matrai hoinan. Paile afno jaati ko garib ra pichhadiyeka lai herum ani taba Janajati ko palo aunla bhanne tarka kunai naulo hoina. Tara usbhe ke yo desh ek duita jaati ko matrai ho ta? Euta thulo andolan bata gujriraheko deshlai arko andolan ko maha bhunwari bata bachauna yei ho socheko?

Desh bhand ma jawosh, afno bane bhaigo bhanne sochai, kaamgari ra prabriti le yanha samma dubayo. Aba ke hune hola?

Bicharo Girije lai matra target nabanau. Huna ta usaile ho sab bhanda badi raj chalaeko yo prajatantra andolan paschat. Sabai afnai matra herera desh lai kale herne?

Akhir dushman aye paile ladna jaane ta pakhuray nai ta ho?

Yo desh sabai jaat ko fulbari ho bhanne sarthak arthama sabailai sametera desh sanchalan garaune prayash gardieko bhaye tapaiko ko janajati ra ko naJananjati bhanne prashna nai aja uthne thiyena. Mukhya mudda ke bhane ?KO JANAJATI RA KO ARU BHANNE HOINA, TARA KINA SABAILAI MOOL PRAWAH MA LYAUNE PRAYAS GARIYENA RA ajha pani GARIYEKO CHHAINA??

#2. Maile Janajati nai governor huna parchha bhanne jiddi liyeko chhaina. Eslai euta udaharan liyera afno gunaso prastut garya matra ho.

Tara Janajati bata governor bane desh bigranchha bhanne kun adhar ma bhanna khojnu bhayeko ho?

Bharat ma kina reservation policy rakhya hola bhanne sochnu paryo. Tyo thik sanga
karyanwan bhaeko chha chain bhanne arkai kuro ho, tara reservation policy ko awashyakata kina mahasush gare holan bhanne sochniya chha.

# 3. Afno maanchhe wa bishesh kunai individual naam sifarish garne pakshama ma chhaina. Tei sochai ra prabriti le ta desh dubayo. Mero bhanai ke bhane yogya bhanda yogya byakti le mauka pauni parchha, kunai jaatpat, afno manchhe ra nihit swartha ko adharma hoina. Sathai tyo mauka ko laagi sabalai tayar rahne mauka dinaparcha, duichar jaati lai matra hoina.

Yo desh sabaiko sajha phoolbari ho bhane kina aru phool haru chanhi awahelit?

Aba janajati ko kura ayo ki daahra kitera rish garne haru pani chhan. Dui char le fayada pani uthae holan. Yo bardo groundswell dabauna lai duichar janalai prashashan le prayog pani gare holan.

Aghi bata nai bhani hale, tapaika prashna haru tapaikai thau ma thikai holan. Maile tapaika sabai prashnaharu lai yanha chittabujhdo garera jawaf dina sakina hula. Yadyapi maile yanha uthaeka muddhaharu jayaj chhan wa chhainan, kripaya bichar garidiu hola bhanne namra niwedan gareko matra ho --desh ko dirghakali bhawishya lai Madhya najar garera. Yo bishan jangal ma euta sano jhino masino awaj siway aru ke hola? Srikhanda nabhaye khurpa ko bend nai sahi.

Kumar Basnet ko dui line sahit:

Kaile ta madhesh kaile ta lek, udi ma hidne haleso
Nepali le Nepali kai khancha hai mutu kaleji
Khanchha hai mutu kalejo, Khanchha hai mutu kalejo!!

Jhilka

Jhilka ji, yo thread lai dherai natatau, yeti ma nai kura tungyauna lai mero bhannu k matra cha bhane, janajaati janajaat bhanera tyo janajaati ka byakti haru le dukha garda chadchan chadai nai. Pulchock ma bahun ko choro le 67% lyaera pani admission payena, kaaran janajaati ko lagi seat chuttyaunu paryo re, aba tesh ma mahile kota ta chadai cha. Aba soochnus yedi tyo bahun ko choro ra kuna yeuta janajaati ko student sangai padne ra campus ma 65% ma janajaati le admission paucha bhane telle ta janajaati bhanne dekhyo ki kaatna matra man lagcha, yo ta jhan darlagdo sthiti ko suruwat ho. Think wat happens if this goes on for some generations. This is no competition, this is discrimination against other than janajaati. Tyo student jo tesari padera pass huncha ra jaagir khojna jaancha tesh bata k expect garne. Nepal ma tehi ho jaagir paudaina ani pheri janajaati seat. Aau na open competition ma sangai struggle garum, u win u take I win I take. K bahun k janajaati ? praya sabai college ra university ma seat chuttyako huncha. thorai number lyaune janajaati le chai admission paune aru le chai competition garnu parne, that is what is discrimination. Jhilka ji mailemathi bhaneko bhikh magne bhanko tellai ho. Janajaati haru darauchan competition garna. believe me, they don't wanna comete, magera khane baani laagi sakyo tini harulai.

Jai Nepal,

allah alim knows, harke dai speaks the truth, nothing but the truth.

allah alim knows, harke dai speaks the truth, nothing but the truth.

Harke,

Let us talk sense. You may have a reason to be angry. But you should not carry that prejudice to colour your vision and judge other things that we are discussing here. You should now know the pains of those people who despite their all out efforts get marginalized because they do not have an afno maanch or belong to wrong caste or group.

I take serious issue with your words expressed in your posting: ??Janajati dekhyo ki kaatna matra man lagcha??

If you are a sensible person, you should see how the other side might be feeling all these years, particularly, after the clutches of the Panchayat regime, now that it is announced that Nepal has a democracy. If the people on the other side were to feel the same, where would the country be today? Think my friend, think first before you exercise your rights. Just because you have a free internet and plenty of free time, there is no reason to bombard others with free thoughts that could cost you and country a lot.

You are confused with adhikar and bhikh. This is probably natural for someone like you who is used to see the both as same and used interchangbly as it is convenient.

Your words?.??? yo ta jhan darlagdo sthiti ko suruwat ho?.?

What are more dangerous are the people of your thinking. This will divide the country farther among us. That is not only darlagdo, but sharamlagdo too, that is if you have any sharm left on you.

Your words: ??..Janajaati haru darauchan competition garna. believe me, they don't wanna compete?.?

You are not only a darlagdo and sharmlagdo, you are a shame on all of us. What I have advocated is an open competition, but not through the backdoor and on the basis of your caste. If the same opportunity for study and preparation is given, then one comes to an open competition. Not only your narrow prejudiced view cannot understand it, you do not seem to have a mental capacity to comprehend the magnitude of the problem. Go do what you do the best that is chiyo who is riding what car and who is earning what.

Your words:?? magera khane baani laagi sakyo tini harulai??

Most disgusting to see you write it. I think you have crossed the boundary here, Harke. It is insulting to all well meaning Nepalis, not just to Janajatis. Go look your face in the mirror and ask that question to yourself. I was more civil to you in my earlier reply to you despite your derogative comments, but I can take no more. I see no reason to reason with you. But I will come back with more if you insist on arguing with your senseless lines.

Jhilka is not the one to call it a quit easily. You will hear more from me Jhilke before you lift your feeble hands for a kaatmar you profess..

By the way, NivanN, it is the Harkey type people who are dividing the country. If we can stop these Harkey type of thinking, not just Janajati, but Junai Jati can progress in Nepal. Just know that I am not just for Jananati, but for Junai Jati --as long as it is NOT limited to only a few jaats. Again, not just for top appoitnments, but an environment and equal opportunities for coming up right from the beginning...

Lau lau, yo topic ma pani sarhai nai discussion bho....somebody please help these guys. Well, if you want to know more about governor's issue please contact me at the following numbers:
char-dui-cha-dui-teen-chaina(42623 chaina)
sunna-sunna-sunna-ma ghar ma hunna
cha-ekahattar-g***a bahattar

Jai Nepal