WHY NEPAL MUSTN'T SAY NO TO NEW ZEALAND RESCUE TEAM?

After the deadliest earthquake hit Nepal last Saturday, Nepal has not just lost 5500 plus people but also its priceless historical sites and monuments enlisted in UNESCO heritage list. Since this is an extraordinary event, the entire world is reacting and many countries are sending their financial and human rescue aid to support Nepal. Undoubtedly, the government of Nepal is under absolute pressure as they are responsible to lead the rescue operations collaborating with foreign rescue support teams but if somebody from our government dare to make any discouraging and disrespectful statement to the support team coming from overseas, especially from New Zealand, they need to apologize immediately and understand the following realities.

• New Zealand Search and Rescue team is one of the best teams in the world as they have had a lot of experiences dealing with frequent earthquakes here in NZ, esp the big one in Christchurch in 2010.

• Since late Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norge had summited Mount Everest for the first time in the world, our mutual bond is very unique, so the current government has no right to strand the NZ Search and Rescue team right before their departure

• I haven't found any record of Nepal making any genuine attempt to establish diplomatic and bilateral relationship with NZ and now when NZ government have come forward to building this relationship, Nepal mustn't lose this opportunity

• The current government of Nepal and all political parties have hurt the sentiments of entire Nepalese first by not giving us the promised new constitution in the last 5 years and now by demonstrating the extremely poor managerial standard in the entire rescue management and coordination department

• Narendra Modi and his cabinet have made multiple attempts and assurance that they won't leave any stone un-turned to help our people with whatever necessary but where is the convincing assurance and commitment from our government and our major politicians. Some of the Indian MPs are willing to offer their monthly pay to help the affected victims in Nepal but where is the willingness of our jumbo 601 members to help their people in need?

• The government must be ashamed of declaring the financial support of Rs 40,000 to the family who have lost their members in the disaster. $500 is not sufficient enough for a month's survival for a family at this stage. The government must have common sense before making such a shameful decision which has not just increased the pain of the victims but has again made every Nepalese negative about Nepali politics and politicians

• We are not just one of the poorest countries in the world but also corrupted one. Especially when the country is getting global attention in such a huge scale, the government must have been proud with so many helping hands coming in and must have led the management initiative with top notch efficiency but saying 'NO' to the 'increasing foreign rescue and support services' is absolute madness of our impotent government

• Affected people in rural years haven't even got food and water since the earthquake first hit on Saturday which vividly demands more support and rescue team. When this is the reality how can our government turn both blind and dumb at the same time?

          Lack of rescue, supplies and care

• Where are our media at the moment? What Nepali media, especially TVs are doing to some extent is OK but it's not enough, learn something from international media like CNN, Al Jazeera and mainly from Indian media and try to go outside Kathmandu and talk to victims, their families and the opinion leaders from the affected communities. Your regular old school cricket commentary style of reporting can't spread the voice or ordinary citizens suffering throughout the country. At this time, don't report about what the prime minister and president of Nepal feels, show the world how our people are feeling, suffering, uniting and collaborating to overcome the situation. Collaborate with foreign media to reach where the government hasn't

• International aid and support is pouring extraordinarily which is what we need at the moment, in this situation media, civil society and foreign observers must monitor the transparency of collected fund and speed up their efforts to distribute it to the needy as soon as possible. Let’s make sure that opportunists and our corrupted leaders don't get benefited this time

• it’s amazing to see the unity of Nepalese in and outside the country and hats off to them who have been supporting our people in every possible ways. This unity has given hope to save Nepal which was politically about to get fragmented due to our corrupted political parties. Guys, lets continue to be vigilant and let’s keep adding pressure to our government to make them more active

VERY IMPORTANT

• News of India spying in Tibet during rescue operations at midnight is popping out this morning but whose role is to monitor all these activities, why our government can't include Nepali civil society member or an observer with every rescue team? Guys let’s not be too racist this time as individuals, various ethnic and religious groups and organisations are sending tons of food on their behalf

• Prachanda, come on.... how on earth can you open an individual or a party based bank A/C to collect donations? If you are a true communist leader, this is not a proper time to organise a press conference in Paris Hill, go to the field and be with the people suffering in an open space. Baburam, Jhalanath, Gagan Thapa and other political leaders where are your paid party cadres now? You have to mobilize them now, if not now, then when?