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With today’s fast-paced development, progress is seemingly at its pinnacle and illiteracy is perceived as a disgrace, if not a downright taboo. More reprehensible than illiteracy would be a situation where, despite being literate, one went so far as to cease to read. When a definite advantage is not made proper use of, when a distinct opportunity remains un-seized and is left to go to waste and when potential remains unused or underutilized, one feels compelled to criticize the deplorable state of mind of the concerned individual. The same principle holds when the “concerned individual” is a nation.
While most countries are at least in the process of achieving the threshold of sustainable development, the majority of people in Nepal are having a tough time trying to make ends meet. The acute shortage of essentials, the ever-augmenting customer price index, the lack of proper infrastructure, the derailing economic scenario, illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, and everything that sounds ominous and spells mayhem haunt the existence of humanity.
Any management is only as good as its manager and the staff who work for him/ her. A manager is entrusted with the responsibility of steering the organization through a plethora of roadblocks and potholes to its ultimate destination by co-coordinating the efforts of the many whom he supervises. Thus, we can fairly assume that an organization functions in juxtaposition with the capacity of its leader. We can also say that the ability of a manager reigns supreme in every situation, all other factors of production come secondary to and rest upon his jurisdiction.
Apart from the 5 Ms of Management (Men, Machine, Material, Money & Manager) there exists one M, the presence (or absence) of which has an obvious effect on the running of any organization. This crucial albeit less-voiced M is Myopia, which determines whether those concerned with the welfare of the institution are of proactive or retroactive temperament.
We can safely correlate the above generalization to the state of affairs in a country- a country is only as good as the leader who is entrusted with the responsibility to lead it. A myopic leader with vested interests and devoid of any will or ability to recognize his potential and those of his fellow men and his country can only assist in creating an aura of depression, confusion and anarchy. The situation gets worse when this myopic leader is in no mood to confess his constraints and aims to hold fast to his power for the sole purpose of quenching his greed for green. It doesn’t matter to him how dubious and unethical doing so is.
I know it is far easier to criticize than to create but the fact remains that this disorderly picture of our country can be gradually streamlined. The only thing hindering this process is the lack of determination. We are in need of a change in mindset from stagnation to construction and creativity.
Nepal is a country where the natural endowment is rich and bountiful, where resources remain unexploited and unexplored and where ways are many but the will is nil. Continually whining and crying over the half-emptiness of the glass instead of trying to make the most out of its half-fullness has been the major roadblock in Nepal’s path to perfection. Let’s face it, a beggar can never attain any progress if he continues to be dependent upon the mercy of others.
Self-esteem and dignity come only after self-reliance. Sadly, Nepal is one country where self-reliance is a mere myth, a delusion and a seemingly non-attainable fantasy. As long as our minimal requirements get met by the benevolence of others we have learnt to cope and be satisfied with inadequacy. Landlocked we have been for ages and now, in addition, we are slowly but surely becoming mind-locked.
Wild oratory has overshadowed concrete policies in every sphere. The general population is politically educated but socially very much backward. Corruption is paramount and those who are vested with the authority to check it are themselves up to their necks in it. The acute scarcity of necessities has given rise to black marketeering. Something as natural and commonplace as rearing and educating one’s siblings now initiates a cold shudder down the spine because the lack of money has trampled on people’s morale. Even law and justice are on sale.
In your career, it is seldom what you know that counts. Rather, it is who you know that matters. Since the early stages of childhood, the majority of children are exposed to grotesque incidents of despair and deficiency. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. When lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens turn into cheats, crooks and thieves. Whereas, in a positive environment, an average performer’s output goes up, in a negative environment, a good performer’s output goes down.
In the present bleak scenario Nepal and the Nepali people are barely trudging along. Capable and intellectual people are quickly abandoning their home country in throngs. Ironically, those entrusted with the reins of the country are not bothered by the sorry state of affairs. They are instead pleased to see many of their fellow men deserting their country, for they anticipate the influx of green bucks into the country in the form of remittances.
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