PC451 Nepal Ideas & Opinions 2 11/1/09
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IDEA : Nepal United youth Team NUTs
- with all these unemployed students hanging around why no give something useful to do ? Someone needs to be prepared to deal with eartquakes/flooding and to help build up infrastructure. So make youth up into teams and pay them a small wage and charge them back for food. Give them some disaster training and after that have then travel around the country supplying labour to urgent projects.

... I suppose you make an agreement with unions so that they are not stealing regular workers jobs.
- And you'd have make it Non-racial and non-political so everyone can join

Nepal needs slow lanes parallel to the highways

- Roads - one reason for the crazy driving is the amount of slow traffic they have like delivery rickshaws and bullock carts. They are always having cross the centre of the road to overtake It's not like England where you can just drive. They need special lanes/roads at the side for slow traffic and then if buses pulled over off the road to stop , the main road would be clear for faster traffic.
- It's good in KL, Malaysia how they have made the Motorbikeways next to the highways with their own special underpasses. So that the bikes stay safe and son't crowd the cars at junctions. The bikeways even have rain shelters.

- In cities like Katmandu many lanes should have narrow barriers to allow bikes, but stop cars and delivery trucks should only be allowed at night.

Idea : China to India cable car
- In Hetauda Hari told me there is a freight cable car system to Kathmandu. They used to be able to send milk and food there in only takes 90 minutes, but it's been out of action for 5 years. It's 200Km in a straight line from China to Nepal so I think big money can be made making the China to India cable car. In mines across the world they already use long cable car systems one built in 1940 is 96Km so 200Km is not impossible. DARE has an article about ropeway opportunities
Nepall Business : There little trust and cooperation in Nepal
Kosi river crossing - Nepalis reluctance to cooperate and over-competitiveness leads to massive disorganisation - Nepalis stop competing and start cooperating and things will work better. - That's the problem see the cartoons on the Nepal opinion blog

- FOOC on negotiating with Russians, "Russians don't believe business can be mutually beneficial, so if the other side is happy with an agreement then the Russians will refuse to agree to it"

New article about why nepal is rich

- Then I realised that it's Nepal that's the rich country.. they have many things we in the UK do not.

- Nepal is vey rich ! England is poor : Nepal has many foodstalls on the street, many cheap teashops, many little repair shops, many buses, many rickshaws etc.
- However We are very poor in England No foodstalls on the street, No cheap teashops, No little repair shops, No buses, No rickshaws etc. And on top of that Nepal has a sunny climate and the beautiful views of snow capped mountains. cos salaries are high

- I have say that cos we have big shops supermarkets, electronics and airline tickets are generally cheaper than Nepal they sell 100s of things every hour, but in Nepal the shop might only sell one airline ticket in a day so they have to make enough profit in that one sale to cover 1 days cost

3 - I noticed that when I walked around the countryside all the small boys said "hello, give me 10 rupiah", I imagined what they will grow up to be like ..especially if they become politicians


Nepali Food is not Nutricious

I'm starving it's difficult to get decent food here. The newspaper says most children are suffering from anaemia.

- To me once again the problem is culture, they choose to eat white rice so throwing away the best vitamin part of the rice, and ignore healthy plentiful food like tomatoes, mandarins and bananas.

not finished 11/1/2009 a Stew Green Opinion
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