Kathmandu: On September 8, the United States Ambassador to Nepal, Shri Michael E. Malinowski and Ministery of Finance Joint Secretary Shri Madhav Prasad Ghimire signed an agreement providing $ 340,000 in assistance to Nepal.
The grant thus provided by the United States $250,000 to help support anti-corruption efforts and promote a spirit of public and community service within Nepal’s National Police and yet another sum of $ 90,000 to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Nepal’s judiciary by extending its effective reach to remote areas.
These two programs are part of a larger effort by the United States and other donors and friends of Nepal to assist HMG/N to reduce corruption, improve rule-of-law and engender respect for human rights.
Telegraph adds: .The fresh donation from the US on three different heads does speak volumes about the prevalence of a number of ailments in this country. To be more specific, it talks about corruption, on the judiciary and the police force.
Firstly it holds subtly that corruption prevails which it hopes that the money thus donated will bring out charismatic results.
Hoping against hope indeed.
It, secondly, does also amply hint that the judiciary is not “effective” and has yet to reach to the remote areas which means that justice is being denied in the remote districts by the “inefficient” (implied) Nepali judiciary.
Thirdly, it also suggests the Nepali police force to go on in the line of public and community services which at the moment it lacked.
However, intellectuals remain skeptical of the fate of the money thus allocated to reduce or curb corruption. The money has gone to the finance ministry which is apparently the Mecca for the corrupts. It is believed that the men involved in “anti-corruption efforts” as envisioned by the donor will themselves gulp the money thus provided by the United States. Hopefully, the men handling the said money will have a very very happy Dashain and Deepawali festivals.