Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (July 26, 2019).
Visit Nepal 2020 is five months away, but not much has been done to promote the country abroad
With just five months remaining before the year ends and Visit Nepal 2020 begins, very little has been done on the promotional front—except for two visible fiascos.
Visit Nepal 2020, Nepal’s third large-scale tourism promotional campaign, envisions drawing two million foreign tourists and earning Rs200 billion. But travel trade entrepreneurs are worried that neither the government, the Nepal Tourism Board nor the Visit Nepal 2020 Secretariat has done anything substantial to promote Nepal abroad to attract tourists.
Women workers in construction sector continue to experience exploitation on several fronts
According to the latest National Labour Force Survey, 2019, nearly 111,000 women are working in the construction sector and the vast majority of them—approximately 103,000—are engaged in informal work.
Even in the Capital city, discrimination towards women construction workers is rampant. Sunita Tamang, from Lalitpur, has been working as a construction worker for more than two years. Despite her work is similar to her male counterparts, there is a disparity in the payscale: while men receive Rs1000 per day on the site, Tamang gets only Rs800.
Baitadi men refuse to adopt family planning measures, so women do it.
Despite participating in many awareness campaigns debunking health-related risks associated with vasectomy, most men in the village are still against the surgery for fear that it would rob them of their manhood.
Because of this mindset, it’s mostly women in the village who adopt temporary or permanent family planning contraceptives.
Schools in Bajhang resume as Yarsa picking season ends
Around four dozen schools in the northern part of the district were closed for three months starting mid-April, as most children had gone to the high pastures to harvest the world’s most expensive herb.
Nearly a month after the expected date of the secretary-level meeting between Nepali and Indian energy officials, the meeting is nowhere in sight.
According to Energy Ministry officials, the Indian side is yet to propose a date for the crucial meeting expected to settle implementation and financial modality issues of the New Butwal-Gorakhpur cross-border transmission line, the major component of a $630 million pact between Nepal and US Millennium Challenge Corporation, among others.
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