[यसका अतिरिक्त राष्ट्रिय र व्यक्तिगत सम्पति र जाय-जेथाको के कति हानी-नोक्सानी भएको छ, त्यसको लेखा-जोखा सरकारी वा गैह्र-सरकारी कुनै पनि श्रोतवाट प्राप्त भएको छैन। अहिले सम्ममा राष्ट्रिय र अन्तरराष्ट्रिय स्तरवाट के कति र कस्तो प्रकारको सहयोग नेपाललाई प्राप्त भएको छ त्यसको जानकारी जनतालाई छैन। उद्धार कार्य, राहत कार्य र पुनर्वासको मौजुदा स्थिति के रहेको छ सरकारको तर्फवाट आधिकारिक र पारदर्शी रूपमा रूपमा सार्वजनिक गरिएको छैन। यसवाट सरकार किंकर्तव्यविमुढ भएको र विपक्षले यसैलाई अचानो वनाएर सत्ता परिवर्तनको दाउमा वसेको आभास हुन्छ। ]
प्रा. मदन दाहाल
नयां वर्ष २०७२ को
प्रारम्भ संगै नेपालमा वैसाक १२ गते शनिवार दिउंसो ११:५६ वजे ७.९ रिक्टर स्केलको
अत्यन्त शक्तिशाली एवं प्रचण्ड-विनाशकारी महा-भूकम्प आयो। तत्पश्चात अर्को दिन ६.९
रिक्टर स्केल लगाएत हिजो सम्म ठूला र साना गरी भूकम्पका सैकडौं झटकाहरू लगातार
आई रहे। यो वि. स. १९९० पश्चातको नेपाल र नेपाली जनतामाथि परेको सवै भन्दा निर्मम, ठूलो दुखद र भयङ्कर त्रासदी हो। त्यसवाट
अहिले यो स्ट्याटस् लेख्दा सम्ममा सम्पूर्ण नेपाल भरिमा करीव ७,००० मानिसको मृत्यू
भैसकेको र १४,००० भन्दा बढी घाईते भएको खवर प्राप्त भएको छ।
यसका अतिरिक्त
राष्ट्रिय र व्यक्तिगत सम्पति र जाय-जेथाको के कति हानी-नोक्सानी भएको छ, त्यसको लेखा-जोखा
सरकारी वा गैह्र-सरकारी कुनै पनि श्रोतवाट प्राप्त भएको छैन। अहिले सम्ममा
राष्ट्रिय र अन्तरराष्ट्रिय स्तरवाट के कति र कस्तो प्रकारको सहयोग नेपाललाई
प्राप्त भएको छ त्यसको जानकारी जनतालाई छैन। उद्धार कार्य, राहत कार्य र
पुनर्वासको मौजुदा स्थिति के रहेको छ सरकारको तर्फवाट आधिकारिक र पारदर्शी रूपमा
रूपमा सार्वजनिक गरिएको छैन। यसवाट सरकार किंकर्तव्यविमुढ भएको र विपक्षले यसैलाई
अचानो वनाएर सत्ता परिवर्तनको दाउमा वसेको आभास हुन्छ।
यस्तो राष्ट्रिय
विपत्ति र महा-त्रासदीको घडीमा सत्ता र विपक्षी राजनैतिक दलका नेता र
कार्यकर्ताहरू तथा तिनका समस्त भातृ-संगठनहरू, तथाकथित नागरिक समाजका अगुवाहरू र
स्वनामधन्य मानव अधिकारवादी कर्मीहरूका साथै निजी क्षेत्रका मूर्धन्य उद्धमी र
व्यवसायीहरू कहां छन दिउंसै रांको वालेर खोज्ने वेला भएको छ। यता भूकम्प पिडित
निरीह नेपाली जनता दलदलमा पुरिएका आफन्तहरू अझै जिवितै फर्केर आउंछन् कि भनेर गह
भरि आशुंमा डुवेर वसेका छन्। यस्तो अवस्था देख्दा लाग्छ हामी सवै जिम्मेवारी लिएर
वसेका मानिसहरू उदासिन, संवेदनशीलताहीन फगत एउटा अत्यन्त कुरूप स्वार्थी यन्त्र हौं।
अहिले सम्मको जानकारीमा
नेपाली सेना, सशस्त्र र जनपथ प्रहरी तथा राष्ट्रसेवक कर्मचारीहरूले सह्रानीय
कार्य गरेका छन्, यसको प्रशंसा गर्नै पर्दछ। छिमेकी राष्ट्रहरू लगाएत अन्य विभिन्न
मुलुक र संघ-संस्थाहरूवाट प्राप्त वैदेशिक सहयोगको खुलेर सह्राना गर्नै पर्दछ र
स्वदेशी र वैदेशिक सहयोग भूकम्प पिडित जनतामा पुग्नु पर्दछ र यसको सदुपयोग हुनु
पर्दछ।
म धेरै ठूलो आदर्शको कुरा गर्दिन -
तसर्थ आ-आफ्नो स्थान, हैसियत र ईच्छा अनुसार आंफुले चाहेको ठाउमा गएर ती भूकम्प पिडित
जनतालाई के कस्तो सहयोग गर्न सकिन्छ गरौं। आफ्नो ईज्जत र आवरू वचाउं ! हामी सवैलाई
चेतना भया !!
NEPAL
Kathmandu , April 30: At the
Tudikhel tent shelter mid-town last evening, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala had
to retreat from hostile jeering by the quake-hit.
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["Where is the government that said it wants Nepal
By Sankarshan Thakur
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| Durbar High School in ruins |
A day before, deputy Prime Minister
Bamdev Gautam nearly pulled out of the completion rites of a major rescue
mission near the Shobha Bhagwati Bridge on the capital's outskirts for fear of
being heckled; he had to be assured by senior Indian officials in charge of the
operation no harm would come to him before Gautam agreed to go.
On the boundary rails of the Singha
Durbar, seat of Nepal's government, Kathmandu residents have put up a missing-person
notice as taunt to their representative in the Constituent Assembly: "Dhyan
Govind, where are you? And where is the aid?"
The quake has opened a chasm between Nepal
"Our leadership has collectively
retreated from responsibility in a time of grave crisis," says Kumar Regmi,
one of Nepal
"Much less come forward and come
to grips with the situation, they have not even moved to empathise with the
people they rule, or even been on call in their hour of need. It makes things
worse that the government and Opposition are united in their dereliction; the
people have no option to forsake one formation and embrace another."
In the days since Nepal
The government has omitted to engage
with a stricken nation, issuing neither appeal nor assurance from the helm it
occupies. It has shut its door to media interaction or questioning. It has left
coordination and execution of rescue and relief efforts to the army. It has
offered little sense to the people it is an institution whose central purpose
is to serve them.
"Where are the people we worked
and voted for?" asks Akhilesh Shreshtha, a farmer from Sindhupalchok
district, who has lost his home and three near ones.
"Where is the government that
said it wants Nepal
That sentiment is widespread, bubbling
across Nepal
It's the kind of anger that former
Kathmandu mayor and Nepali environment minister P.L. Singh finds just as well
as alarming.
"I am least surprised the
politicians are running scared, they have lost credibility overtime and with
this quake they stand exposed; they have proved themselves a set that can only
serve themselves, not the people. That can't be good for the health of a
democracy; this democracy is failing the people," Singh says.
A long-serving leader of the Nepali
Congress and a man with access to inside workings of the government, Singh said:
"The government and administration are in total disarray, such that they
are sitting on piles of aid and relief and cannot get it distributed; they don't
know what to tell international rescue and relief workers; even senior minister
don't know, they are just busy trying to hide from the people."
A senior Nepali government official
who attended a government-international aid agency interface revealed on
condition of anonymity that department heads had not been able to furnish clear
directions to aid workers; their most offered response: "We shall let you
know."
Caroline Anning, a "Save the
Children" volunteer from the UK
Her great advantage was she had had a
previous stint in Nepal
For a volunteer fresh in Nepal
On the road to Gorkha in the west Nepal Bihar . The doctors
were taking a nap in a local lodge, the ambulance and a bus loaded with
medicines and first aid were being washed.
"For three days we have only been
running from one place to another," said driver Ram Kumar.
"Wherever somebody sends us we
are told we are not required; now we are headed to Gorkha, if there is nothing
to be done there we may just head back."
Back at the Tudikhel camp in Kathmandu,
where Prime Minister Koirala was jeered, Bikram Bhele, a displaced tour
operator, made a cutting summation of why public rage was beginning to
sporadically erupt: "This lot (the politicians) have not been able to give
this country a Constitution for seven years now; do you think they can be up to
any good other than holding on to power?"
The quake-hit remains of the Gorkha Boys School Kathmandu . Picture by
Sankarshan Thakur
