Embrace Indigenous Model Of Development

Development is a process of realising the nation’s full potential and supporting people to exercise their informed choice. Nepal can flare development, ensure livelihood of its people, retain youth population and multiply global cooperation if it does not uncritically accept epistemological bedlam and ground its process on contextual ideas apt to national needs. Development is a value-laden concept, not value-neutral, which seeks the splendid compatibility of ends and means. It empowers the weak and deflects the archaic notion of curse of sati and outer view that the nation is resource scarce. The values of people’s participation in the empirical indicators of progress can improve the quality of life of Nepalis. One strategy is policy coherences across ecological, social, economic and political scales whereby each wires the other in a virtuous cycle. Nepal has faced each development concept puncturing the other without building on it.