Written by: Ashish Dahal - 27004, Grade IX
Posted on: 21 February, 2024
Nepal is a beautiful country set in the heart of the Himalayas. But this beauty has been dealing with a very huge virus that has been killing Nepal from inside, ‘Brain Drain’. This is a very huge problem in any country. This problem makes it so that there are no people who can work or be able to stay in their motherland. In Nepal, there are many factors that have been causing this problem. I would like to talk about the main cause of this problem: ‘Politics’ of Nepal.
The politics in Nepal has not been stable for decades. Changes in governance and constitution have been very common in Nepal. The shift in power dynamics is very huge. One day one political party might be in power but the very next day someone else comes. There has been too much conflict in this nation over the political power. Youth in this conflict either go abroad for work and education or a little bit of those who are still here get influenced by a political party and die in that conflict. The guys who want to go abroad also sometimes get into this political matter and die in it. As there was news that a guy was shot dead by a police officer for protesting about the government not letting them go abroad. Politics has been like a business in Nepal. In every household there is someone who is a politician more than actual workers in Nepal; there are politicians. Those politicians are also not so fair as Nepal has been set up for the 110 countries in corruption among 180 countries. Nepal has a corruption index rate of 34% as it shows how corrupt Nepal’s politicians are.
Nepal has very few factories and very few job opportunities. Most of the young people who have been staying and working also don't earn that much. The money earned from hard work in Nepal is less than in other countries. If a person works the same amount of time giving the same amount of dedication and working hard, then he can earn way more money than he can earn in Nepal. In Nepal, there are already monopoly sets for any business one likes to start because of that there are very few business sets in Nepal. Nobody invests in Nepal because it looks like a business that can never grow. People are very scared to run any kind of business because of heavy inflation; one day the raw materials might cost less but the very next day it might skyrocket. The whole economy is not stable in Nepal. The trade is also very fluctuating. But if one would like to start anything, one would need human resources. That key thing is also missing in Nepal. In every household, there are some who have gone abroad to either study or work in Nepal.
Although this problem might be affecting Nepal, the government is trying to get rid of this problem. They are adding courses in school that would stress the importance of staying in the motherland. They are adding new things in the government like if anyone wants to start a business, the Nepali government would sponsor it. Adding many more things and trying to make politics stable and getting rid of monopoly in every market might be the way of getting rid of this problem in my thoughts.
