Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned of pulling
out of Melamchi project after Minister for Works and
Physical Planning Hishila Yami wrote a letter to the
Kathmandu Valley Drinking Water Limited expressing
the government's inability to sign management
contract for valley water distribution.
Yami wrote that the government does not wish
to go for management contract for the time being.
The ADB, when it agreed to provide loan assistance
of $140 million to the project, had had the precondition
that valley's water distribution management
should be handed over to foreign private sector company.
Now the million dollor question is who has signed
that contract then, who was finance minister,
finance secretary, and minister for physical
planning and his secretary. Shouldn't they
be hold responsible for accepting such a
precondition. Why did they accept that
precondition, for how much money or
if they are honest, what is their logic behind
accepting to privatize the water distribution system
(though some claim that it is not privatization.)
Can Hisila punish those officials and ministers
who signed such a regressive agreement?
So, the water mafias and hydro mafias will also
learn the lesson that they will also be punished
one day, if they sign any such agreement and gulp
millions of dollors of commission at the cost of Nepal.
Why not start this campaign to punish corrupts,
who has benefitted foreign companies and
foreigners at the cost of Nepal and Nepali people.
The cabinet had approved awarding
the contract to a British company Severn Trent.
Can Hisila Yami alone fight for Nepal and Nepali?
Can Maoists fight for Nepal and Nepali?
Are they fighting for Independent Nepal?
a Sovereign Nepal?
Why did World Bank pull
itself out of Arun III and now all the leading
newspapers are praising GMR? How much
commission has GMR paid to finance minister
(he was not invited at SAARC
he has just gone to New Delhi to collect commission)
and to journalists? Is there any gurantee that
they are honest and will remain honest? We
have an example of UTL, that has gulped
millions of tax in Royal regime by bargaining
and still bargains time and again claiming
to be a professional organization. We have bitter
experiences with such companies, which seems very
beneficial to Nepal at first and start showing
the real colour and class after one year.
Is there anything called transparency?
Keichi Tamaki, an ADB official, has warned
that failure to sign management
contract would lead to revocation of the bank's
assistance to the project.
How can he threaten Nepal government?
The recently ended ADB's meeting has discussed
that ADB is taking advantages from the
underdeveloped country and benefit big and rich
Asian countries, Afghan finance minister openly
ctitizised ADB for such injustice.
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Why only Indians, almost all the foreign companies think they can do anything in Nepal, because they know the rate of UML, NC, NC(D) or Maoists.
Indians come to Nepal because they cannot compete outside in the world or even in India. Mittal went to Europe, why? Only the third grade Biharis come to Nepal.
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The foreigners interest in doing agreement with the government in the transition period is suspious.
They should either wait for an elected government or be transparent on agreements. I suggest them to publish all the agreements in atleast three national daily newspapers for the public to confirm they are not cheating.
Only some good points come in the newspapers and remaining points that are more important are hidden like the Seven Trent agreement in Melanchi issue.
This government can not do any long term agreement that affects the country in a long term.
Ramesh Shrestha
Bravo! we don't need ADB if ADB tries to pressure us to do the things that doesnot help Nepal to grow it should be abolished. We are no weaker or dependent people any more. Provided security, Nepalese can invest in big projects themselves.
Keep it up, Hisila!
The fight is with wrong not with ADB. The wrong attitudes should be kicked out not the ADB.
The ABD was started as an economic arm of US foreign policy, although Japan has been able to exert growing control. One of its primary purposes has been privatization and turning over control of local institutions and resources to transnational corporate ownership and control.
Regarding water, local communities are engaged in struggle all over the world against the private international control of water being promoted by Development Banks. In fact, we just interviewed a man involved in such struggle in El Salvador on the radio today, where protestors are facing arrest and long imprisonment. It is impossible for the people of Nepal to turn over ownership of their water to private foreign organizations and at the same time maintain control over it. Furthermore, if solution is sought through foreign financing, access to water will be shifted to higher biddeners, namely foreign corporations. People in Nepal, as elsewhere, will see the result in the form of higher and higher tariffs. Given the experience of municipalities and regions in Mexico, the people of Nepal will eventually find themselves desperately fighting their own national security forces and police, which will have been turned into an arm of enforcement of international corporate interests, backed by what will be a severe, basically colonial, penal code, to get back access to their own desperately needed water.
Finally, even if the water problem is solved presently, the Kathmandu valley population will keep having to divert more and more of the country's water to its heavy and wasteful use, causing an expanding environmental and social crisis in the neighboring riversheds. Even now, the Melamchi diversion is seen as only solving the valley's water problem for 10 years, and after that there are already designs on more distant watersheds, using Melamchi as the conduit.
There has been no talk of conservation, of disciplining the population to use minimal amounts of water (in my visits and living in the valley I have seen very little sense of need to conserve water, and when guests come from the valley to our house in the United States, our water usage jumps from less than 25-50 gallons of water per day for 3 people to 200 to 300 gallons of water).
Also, while all this time has been wasted on the Melamchi, possibiliites for creating alternatives such as rain water collection have been squandered in the name of infeasibility, according to the ABD and local syncophant experts. The real reason that such systems are infeasible is that they are highly decentralized, meaning that they are controlled by the local populace and they require the active participation and organization of the local populace. This would be the basis for real democracy which is anathema for the Development Banks, experts, and politicians, and lessen the possibility for diversion of funds which is anathema for contractors, advisors, experts and politicians.
The question is not where to go to get more and more water, but how to conserve it. Feasibility is not to be over the choice of which water project is to be done, but whether Nepal can indefinitely centralize by building up urban Kathmandu, which has been the future offered it by aid and "development". There are other alternatives, which in the long run not only won't have the inevitable devastating results, but they will make for much more livable and equitable society.
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