After Sushila Karki is appointed as Nepal’s interim Prime Minister, what historical responsibilities and challenges does she face starting today? She has received a mandate with two critical responsibilities: overcoming these challenges to lay the foundation for a directly elected Prime Minister and a stable four-year government. Additionally, the following tasks are proposed:

• Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery: Investigate the assets of all leaders and employees who have held public positions and earned income since 2046 BS (1989/90 AD), nationalize properties acquired through corruption, and invest them in establishing industries and development projects. Through diplomatic efforts, repatriate significant amounts of undisclosed money held in foreign banks and allocate 450 million NPR per local body for development spending to create an environment that provides entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for every youth.
• Education and Employment Reforms: Implement an education system where students join internships and employment upon completing each educational level. Starting from class 8, introduce a “learn and earn” program to foster active participation in employment and entrepreneurship. Enact laws guaranteeing entrepreneurship or employment within six months of completing plus two, bachelor’s, or master’s degrees. Abolish the Public Service Commission and delegate employment responsibilities to schools and universities.
• Diaspora Repatriation and Economic Self-Reliance: Encourage approximately 6 million Nepali citizens abroad to return and transform their acquired knowledge, skills, technology, and capital into Nepal’s production, agriculture, industry, employment, technology development, business, projects, and enterprises to make Nepal self-reliant and lay the foundation for an export-based economy.
• Digital Governance and Efficiency: Enhance employee capacity to boost productivity, widely develop a digital governance system, and create an automation-based zero-corruption system. Develop a one-door data system for integrated development, create an environment for maximum output with minimal staff, and enact laws and systems mandating the completion of administrative tasks within 24 hours. For legal cases, make provisions to resolve any case within 15 days.
• Education System Overhaul: To make Gen Z creative, constructive, humane, development-oriented, ethical, and scientific, radically reform the curriculum and implement a practical and scientific education policy.
• Anti-Corruption in Development Projects: Eradicate widespread corruption in development projects by implementing a people-participation-based development and construction policy, incorporating labor donations, public investment, and government investment to enable a zero-corruption strategy.
• Infrastructure and Project Completion: Assign major national projects to the Nepali Army, police, and all employees with appropriate monitoring to quickly complete unfinished projects and hand them over to the public.
• Restoring National Dignity and Investment: Protect Nepal’s lost national and international dignity, create an investment-friendly environment by welcoming multinational companies, and enact easy investment laws to generate widespread employment opportunities.
• Agricultural Self-Sufficiency: Address farmers’ issues comprehensively and immediately launch an agricultural campaign of “I will grow enough in Nepal for all Nepalis” to stop 300 billion NPR in imports.
• Cooperative and Usury Issues: Identify victims and perpetrators of cooperatives and meter interest (usury), assess invested properties and capital, and resolve all stuck funds within 30 days through forgiveness, sales, or auctions.
• Education Standardization: Bring uniformity to private education in terms of fees and quality, implement basic standards and uniform fees nationwide, and make institutions accountable to communities.
• Healthcare Reforms: Ensure uniformity in healthcare services, scientifically establish treatment, medicine, and service fees nationwide, and strictly enforce rules requiring all institutions—government or private—to display rates as issued by the Health Ministry in their citizen charters. Enable treatment for all diseases in Nepal, mandate leaders and ministers to receive treatment in Nepal, and make social security-based treatment systems mandatory for all citizens.
• Environmental and Community Initiatives: For damaged roads, sold water sources, polluted rivers, and dirty homes, yards, and communities, implement a policy-based mandatory labor donation program with at least 50% public participation for cleaning and construction.
• Digital Content and Employment: Create a special policy and program to generate employment through creative digital content production and initiate the program.
• Immediate Action and Public Input: Start these tasks within this week, take suggestions from Gen Z and the public within 15 days, incorporate missed items, and proceed with robust implementation. All cabinet members must engage in their duties with high morale.

The newly appointed Prime Minister Sushila Karki has received these duties and responsibilities. If she can proceed accordingly, Nepal’s golden future will be in her palm.

#Drona Parajuli: Technopreneur in Nepal