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Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, Examination Directorate, today publishes examination form fill up notice for the make up examination of Master of Business Studies (MBS) Fourth semester.
Students who have failed or absent in maximum two subjects can fill the examination form within Sharwan 26, 2073 and submit to Central Department. Central Department has to submit the filled examination form to this directorate within 28th of Sharwan.
Examination form fee Rs: 1000
A Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star
by Lilla M. Bishop and Barry C. Bishop
Summary
This essay is written by two American geographers who had spent 15 months living in the hills of western Nepal. It describes the hill people who walk to Nepalgunj to buy and sell things. The hill people on their journey towards Nepalgunj carry medicinal herbs, hashish, hand-knit sweaters and baskets to sell there. The geographers also met a group of men at the height of 9000 metres who were processing silajit on the way instead of their homes because they wanted to avoid a bad star! They are intending to sell silajit in Nepalgunj.
When the geographers walked through the sal forest slopes of the hills near the Terai they noticed that the trees were being chopped down and that the forest would soon disappear. One of the geographers talked to the local people about this but they said they had to chop down the trees to feed their animals.
When the geographers arrived in Nepalgunj they stared in amazement at the many things they had not seen while they were in the hills. They also watched the hill people buying supplies from the traders. Their fellow travelers bought sweets, aluminum, ironware, cotton cloth, spice and jewelry. One of porters, Karma spent all his money buying distillery (alcohol making) equipment. He hoped to become rich by making alcohol in Jumla.
The geographers returned to Jumla to finish their project. They had learnt much in Nepal. For example, they had learnt that hill people needed to farm as well as do other activities to survive. They also observed that people in the hills were always moving around.
Note: The title "A Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star" suggests the foot movement made by travelers who are going to Nepalgunj quickly because they do not want to be travelling at an unlucky time.
Comprehension questions based on the Text
- How did the writers travel to Nepalgunj?
- List the items carried by their fellow travelers?
- Why were these goods being taken to Nepalgunj?
- What did the Chhetri woman ask the authors to do for her?
- What is silajit?
- Why did the men not process the silajit before leaving their home village?
- What was happening to the trees in the sal forest?
- Why did people say they cut down the trees?
- What does the phrase "the Terai, bread-basket of Nepal" mean?
- Why did the author walk wide-eyed down the middle of the paved street in Nepalgunj?
- List the items the hill people bought in Nepalgunj?
- What did Karma buy?
- Why did he buy this?
- How long had the authors been in Western Nepal?
- How did they travel around western Nepal?
- How did the peasants survive?
Some vocabulary
Hashish: ganja; hand-knit: knitted by hand; poignantly: emotionally; hinterlands: areas some distance away from a major city; tarlike: like tar (pitch that roads are made from); pharmaceutical: medical; propitious: lucky, favourable; elevation: altitude/height above sea level; skeletal looking: very thin; bare and eroded: lacking in trees and soil; bread-basket of Nepal: i.e. where most of Nepal's food is grown; grove: small woodland; mournful: sad; yapping: barking; muted: hardly able to be heard, inaudible; barrage of new sights: lots of new things to look at; beside himself at: very excited by; doughy: made from a lot of flour; swarm: go round in a big crowd; distillery equipment: alcohol making equipment; mesh: come together; inhospitable: unfriendly; afoot: on foot, walking; indomitable: determined; peasantfolk: farmers who have a small amount of land; cross-flows: i.e. people constantly going backwards and forwards across the area: formidable: difficult to use.
Board Questions (only short questions have been asked so far from this text)
- How is Karnali linked economically with the low land regions to the south? (2057, 2061, 2063)
2. What did the two writers learn about the life and culture of the people of the Karnali region during their journey on foot? (2059)
- Give short account of the life of the people of Karnali as you find in "Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star"? (2066)
Some Solved Questions
How is Karnali linked economically with the low land regions to the south? (2057, 2061, 2063)
Ans. The two American geographers, Lilla and Barry along with a host of porters made a arduous tour on foot in 1971 to explore the life of the people of the Karnali region – western hills of Nepal – as they descended to Nepalgunj, a trading town in the southern Terai. Their travel lasted over 15 months and they covered nearly 2000 miles. Most Karnali people, on the one hand, carry with them unprocessed and raw products like medicinal herbs, hashish, hand-knit sweaters, and blankets to trade in Nepalgunj because there is no local market in Karnali to sell them. Some other enterprising but superstitious people take unprocessed silajit, which were easily available in their home valley of Sinja. They would be found processing this product on the way to the lowland. Still other Karnali folks also go to the lowland region to the south to find jobs. A case to cite is that of the Chhetri woman's husband who had left home in the mountain to find job fifteen years ago but had never returned home. The fact that the geographers didn't see any modern developments, besides Buddhist prayer wheels and occasional water mills hints us to lack of modern technology that is essential for the economic prosperity of a region. Also, road, a big infrastructure of economic growth is not there, whereby commerce and trade is badly stunted.
In Nepalgunj, on the other hand, the geographers noticed that the hill people went in groups from shop to shop buying essential commodities like cotton cloth, aluminum, ironware, spice, and jewelry, which they would probably sell or put to use for domestic purposes back home in Karnali. Some people even buy unconventional items like alcohol making equipment in order to make quick money. Whatever they buy or sell, the Karnali people's only access to the lowland is travel on formidable footpaths so it is economically burdensome and time-consuming.
Give a short account of the life of the people of Karnali people.
Karnali region lies in the western hills of Nepal. It is geographically far removed from the bread-basket of Nepal – the Terai. The people of this region are mostly traders. They carry with them products like medicinal herbs, hashish, hand-knit sweaters, and blankets. What is missing in their list of goods to be sold in the lowlands are food items. This could be so because of the unfavourable nature of soil of this region. Nevertheless, the people of this region have managed to work closely with nature in this inhospitable western Himalayas. The people of this region upon returning home bring with them conventional items like cotton cloth, aluminum, ironware, spice, and jewelry from the lowland town of Nepalgunj. Karnali people, particularly male members have to travel out of their home to find work or get jobs because there is none in their homeland, and very often they are gone for a long time. Some men are gone for over 15 years. This informs us of the economic burden men folks have to carry on, and the kind of implication it has for the family. Women have to double up as husband to keep the day to day life running.
The Karnali people are also very superstitious and fatalist in their approach. The 8 or 9 men who were processing silajit on the way did so because they thought it would bring them bad luck had they processed it at home at the inopportune time. Additionally, the women folk of lower Karnali are uneducated and unaware as to the devastating consequences of tree cutting in order to feed their livestock. Thus, the combined lack of access to transportation, education, communication and other basic infrastructure of development has made the life of the Karnali people very difficult and torturous. The hill people move from one shop to another in a group while in Terai. This shows that they are skeptical, diffident and weary. They don't have the education and confidence to talk with the merchants, who they think are fast-talking. One of the defining characteristics of the Karnali area is the constant movement of people, animals and goods over the formidable footpaths of the region. All in all, the people of Karnali are laborious but ignorant; enterprising but superstitious, free moving but skeptical.
What did the geographers learn from their stay in the Karnali?
The American geographers wandered nearly 2000 miles afoot, and they travelled from the high mountain to the Terai town of Nepalgunj in course of their project and back again. This journey was difficult, tiring and dangerous as they had to walk all the way up and down. There were porters to help them along, but they had to travel along human footpaths. They appreciated this as it taught them the many compulsions and problems of the mountain people: travelling, unemployment, lack of education etc. They also observed the hard work of the people who toiled on their respective farms in spite of the bad soil. Besides this, the Mountain people also carried out one or the other activity to supplement their income, some travelled with their animals to the lowland region with indigenous products. The geographers were overwhelmed by the tenacity, resilience and courage of the people who never gave up living and working in spite of the region's harsh weather, lack of essential infrastructure of development like road, education, communication, etc., and, poor soil that gave little or no food yield. The people there, nevertheless, have meshed themselves with nature and survived.
Raj Kumar Gautam, /Arniko HSS, Biratnagar, rgautam78@yahoo.com. July 27, 2013.
Sulo Shrestha-Shah
Interview with Sulo Shrestha-Shah, Lotus Holdings
A successful businesswoman boosts business exports in Nepal by starting an investment company built on the principle of corporate social responsibility.
Lotus Holdings is an investment company and business incubator that has already helped to establish five manufacturing companies and six other companies in information technology (IT) and other service areas.
How it all began
Sulo Shrestha-Shah, president and founder of Lotus Holdings, began trading in carpets and textiles in 1991. As she had a German designer as business partner, she exported to Germany from the outset. She set up her own manufacturing company, Formation Carpets, when it became difficult to find high-quality goods.
Ms Shrestha-Shah's experiences as a businesswoman in a man's world, and the obstacles that she identified as hampering development in her native Nepal, shaped her vision in setting up Lotus Holdings. "It was the realization that I needed to look beyond myself which led to investing in other companies and sharing the market," she explains.
Ms Shrestha-Shah says that although there are some women entrepreneurs currently exporting from Nepal, most women are unable to engage in business activities because their families prevent them from working.
Apart from the cultural resistance to women working outside the home, she sees the laws governing property rights as the main problem for would-be women entrepreneurs, since only males can inherit property in Nepal. If this were not the case, she is convinced that more Nepalese women would become entrepreneurs.
Blocks to export competitiveness
Although some barriers are specific to women, other obstacles to competitiveness are gender neutral. Ms Shrestha-Shah identifies skill shortages as a major difficulty for Nepalese companies, as 50% of the country's population is illiterate.
Another problem is obtaining finance, since banks are unwilling to issue loans against companies, as is the practice in many countries.
Investments for success
Lotus Holdings and its affiliates believe that research and development activities are the only path to success in exports. After it was set up in 1998, Lotus Holdings began to research markets, such as France, Italy and the United States of America, with help from the Nepalese Government and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
It plans to accelerate its current development rate by investing in companies in areas identified as productive and in need of assistance. It helps its members to export efficiently by providing advice and information on shipments and legal requirements.
To address the skills shortage problem, Lotus Holdings and its affiliates have introduced educational programmes for staff and their children. They have also invested in technology that they feel has the potential to increase exports.
Lotus Holdings has a strong philosophy of corporate social responsibility, and will only invest in companies that believe in ethical business, treat their employees fairly and invest in education. It has founded a non-governmental organization, Hoste Hainse, to focus on social issues. All companies within the group operate an equal rights policy, always employing the best person for the job. Ms Shrestha-Shah feels that the business community as a whole would have a better image if it focused more on corporate social responsibility.
Company: Lotus Holdings
Sector: Manufacturing, trading, investment management, services
Location: Nepal
Employees: Over 400, of whom 20 are in the head office at Kathmandu
Yearly turnover: US$ 427,000
Export sales as % of total turnover: 50%
Current export markets: France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America
Web site:http://www.lotusholdings.com.np
Advice to other women entrepreneurs: "Make your presence felt, and break down barriers. This is difficult, even for educated women, but necessary if women are to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the business community."
Mary Treacy, Trade Forum contributing editor, conducted this interview.
Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Entrance examination Board has published an urgent notice regarding BE/B.Arch entrance examination for the academic year 2073/74.
Online application for computer based test will open from Sharwan 4, 2073 10 AM to Sharwan 20, 2073 5 PM.
Download (old): Download IOE Entrance Syllabus and Examination System.pdf
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Applicant has to fill the online application form available at entrance.ioe.edu.np
Online form can be filled within Sharwan 4, 2073 10 AM to Sharwan 20, 2073 5 PM.
Online form can be filld from anywhere, where there is facility of internet.
Entrance exam fee: Rs. 2000, must be deposited in the bank account of Institute of Engineering in the account Number 00915056064 from any branches of Siddhartha Bank.
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