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Not a Country for Young people?
A chiya pasal saahuni has taken out loans from loan sharks to send her daughter to Japan. It cost her more than ten lakhs. She had managed to save half of the sum needed by selling chiya and khaja, running a hospital canteen but then she had to leave the place because the cousin of one of the hospital owner's wife wanted to take over the place in hopes of making more profit.
She hopes that her daughter will get the visa and then go to Japan and someday earn enough to pay back the loan and also build a better future for herself. Let us hope she gets the visa. Let us hope she becomes financially secure in the years to come.
A young man is here for the holidays or the election. He has a month-long break and voted for 'Ghanti' because he blames the same old Congress-UML-Maoist (CUM) cartel for destroying the country in the past twenty years. He graduated with an English major from a university in Bengaluru. But maybe it was Gordon Ramsay or some other chef, which inspired him to not write a novel someday but to work in the kitchen and create works of culinary arts instead.
He works for a high-end Malaysian or maybe it call a Pan-Asian restaurant there, making twenty thousand Indian Rupees as he is just a year into his job. He makes enough to survive in India and hopes one day to open a fine dining restaurant in Kathmandu and be the first Michelin-rated one in the country.
A middle-aged man arrived from Qatar a few days before the Middle East conflict. He came home on a break he receives every two years. He works as a heavy-vehicle driver for a contractor dealing with municipal waste there.
He makes more than Rs 1.5 lakhs per month as he has a decade-long experiences. And in a decade, he has suffered from uclers, piles, back pain and high blood pressure. He lives in Sapatari and apart from the land and the house, he has not saved much. He is voting for nobody because he thinks everyone is in it for power and privileges, and not to ease the pain of the public.
A college-topper could not find a better-paying job and luckily, he passed the Korean EPS thing and also found employment in South Korea. He worked 16 hours a day for three years and saved almost a Karod and then put all of it in a cooperative for higher interest. Today, the co-operative owners are living in foreign lands, while depositors are left with nothing and nowhere to go to complain and no one to take action against the culprits.
He blames his fate but is confident that he will earn again as he has a stable job and gets overtime perks. He should have invested in Gold or Silver or real estate but he decided otherwise and blames the government for not regulating the cooperative sector efficiently.
This country has never been one for the young folks but old corrupt men and a few women who have made billions in illegal wealth by stealing government funds and extorting business people , the bureaucrats and bichauliyas!
Hope, the new government will make it a country for the young ones so that they can dream and hope for a better future here at home rather than be forced to leave for better economic or academic opportunities overseas.
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