Federalism Could Be A Tool To Recolonize The Terai

CA panel lists jurisdictions of center, federal states Republica Provincial governments will look after provincial railways, highways, courts, provincial development projects, health services, land management, land revenue, protection and use of language, culture, script and religion of the region, forest and water resources in the province, agriculture, livestock development, trade and commerce, transport management, production and sale of alcoholic items, among others...... the local government will be responsible for primary and secondary level education. ....... National and interstate environment management, use of forests, wild animals, flora and fauna, mountains, water resources and national parks that spread across the provinces have also been included in the concurrent list.

Highways have to be maintained at both the federal and state levels. The major arteries in the country will have to stay under federal jurisdiction. The proposed East West railway line can not be the property of the future Madhes state. That will have to stay in federal jurisdiction. The same will have to apply to all the big hydroelectricity projects. The big rivers of Nepal are national property and belong to all Nepalis equally. If we do not make that clear in the constitution we are going to have major river disputes in the future between the states.

NC Leaders Snub NC Prez's Call
PP Leader 'threatens' To Withdraw Support From Govt Republica The Nepali Congress (NC) Parliamentary Party has strongly protested ..... Poudel threatened to withdraw support to the coalition government if he disregarded the party´s institutional decision. ..... None of the senior NC leaders except ministers representing the party in the government attended the swearing in. ..... Koirala had given indications that he would look for an alternative government if Nepal failed to promote his daughter to DPM. ...... He had asked Sujata Koirala to help mend the schism within her party and prolong the current government as the NC PP and CWC were against her becoming DPM. 

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Mission Madhes

• Mission Madhes: Constitution Draft
• Mission Madhes (2)
• Mission Madhes 

For the past few weeks, I have given a little bit of time to a new organization Mission Madhes. The idea is to reach out on a membership drive, initiate a discussion, and formally launch the organization when the time is right. For understandable reasons, I have received a lot of queries as to where the organization stands in relationship with ANTA.

Mission Madhes	ANTA
A global organization with members also in Nepal.	A diaspora organization based in the US.
Not yet formally launched. Has 22 members and growing.	Been around four plus years and has about 100 members.
Will hold elections for the Officer positions over email so as to maximize electoral participation by members.	Is not known to hold elections. Holds them in Atlanta at the convention of a little known organization that hardly any Madhesi attends.
Transparent.	Opaque.
Free membership.	Membership fee $20.
Uses the mainstream word Madhesi.	Uses the artificially concocted term Teraian.
Is not affiliated with any one political party in Nepal.	The leadership is known to favor one particular party.
Has officially stated will work in close cooperation with ANTA and other Madhesi organizations.	Has no official position on Mission Madhes.
Primarily focused on building a global Madhesi network to enhance interaction.	Focused on using the brand name in Pahadi settings where Madhesis are likely to be less than 1%.

The bottom line is this. There are more than 3,000 Madhesis in America. ANTA grew to about 100 and went stale. There is an urgent need to organize more Madhesis in America and to use internet technology to form direct contact points with the Madhesis in Nepal.

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