News of folks from Sudurpaschhim heading back to different cities of India in search of economic opportunities is beginning to make rounds again. As unfortunate and as risky as that may sound, this was, sadly, expected. So where did we go wrong?
In fact, a proper question would be, what have we done right? At a time when global heavyweights have been struggling to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be ignorant to claim that Nepal could have handled the situation better than the rest of the world. But the least we could have done is looked into the structure of our own economy and communities and tried to manage as per our ground realities. Continue reading…