Internet users in Nepal
Narayan Poudel , kathmandu: Nov 16 2008
Made Popular Nov 18 2008
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Internet users in Nepal

The Kingdom of Nepal is a landlocked country bordered by the People’s Republic of China to the north and by India to the south, east and west. Most of the people are uneducated in the present time also. It is shameful to say that not only people, the leader of the country are also uneducated.

We can see some members of constituent assembly who even do not know how to write their name. To use computer and internet is very difficult as to drink water for dog. This condition shows that what the condition of the internet users in Nepal is. The leaders are perfect to give speech and lure the people.

The Internet was first introduced into Nepal in 1993 in a venture of the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (RONAST) and a private company, Mercantile Office Systems (MOS). After the internet introduced in Nepal it was mostly used by the high class people.

Poor people were deprived of using. We can find low number of people who use internet for different purposes. Nepal is the country which has many undeveloped remote areas. These people who are in remote area are unknown about computer. They are even deprived of using electricity. Most of the county hasn’t access of electricity. Government is unable to give technical knowledge for the people.

Students form schools, and colleges are lose practically. They are taught theoretically more. Till now most governmental office also do not have access of computer and internet. According to the data of year 2007- 249,400 people use internet out of 25,874,519 people which was the total population of Nepal. The condition of internet before 1997 was very poor.

If we come to evaluate the present condition the number is growing day by day. But the number is growing in city area only. Remote areas are till deprived. There are such people who even don’t know the alphabet letters. Parents are sent to jungle for grass and wood for their livelihood. When these children who even do not know the alphabet letters will develop their skill to use computer and internet. This is the question over governments.

Parents are also unaware about the importance of education, computer, e-mail, and internet and also about the modern technology. Mostly internet users are the high class people, city dwellers, NGOs, Ingo’s, and the official men’s. There are numerous Internet cafes in Kathmandu, and other city areas of Nepal. Young people, in particular, are being drawn to the use of e-mail and the Internet.

The Internet is used by the vast majority of Nepalese for e-mail, chatting and, among younger users, downloading games and music. However, 88% of the population of Nepal lives in rural areas, and a great number of these areas has no electricity or phone connections. Thus only NGOs with centrally located offices have the potential to access the Internet.

When we estimate the present condition of the internet in Nepal it seems one most challenging issues of the country. Development without technology and education is impossible. So the government should be aware about the plight and give the technical and practical education not only in the city areas rather also in the rural areas of the country.

Government should also think that for the development first of all people should educated well and public awareness should be there in the nooks and corner of the country. People should not be deprived of education. So it is one of the most challenging issue.

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Swati
Amritsar, India
This post reminded me of my grandparents telling the condition of India during Independence time...i.e. around 60 yrs back. You are right Narayan that as long as there is lack of education in the country, there can be no development. And forget about the IT sector. Do you have any IT companies or the MNCs out there in Nepal? I wonder!
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Here are many IT related organizations. Actually, urban people are engaged on internet related activities but rural people even don’t know what’s the computer?
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Narayan Poudel
kathmandu, Nepal
yes there are some events of the past which we remember sometime by the events, news, and so on. thanks for comment
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Sami
Burlington, United States
Don't tell me...tell your people that they are missing on world's important affairs without the internet. Not only that internet is the most efficient source of entertainment. Thank god, im in USA as I can't even imagine my life without my laptop. Anyway, good luck for future dude.
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ok thanks for comment. sir you cannot live without laptop in us. But i am very sad to see poor condiotion of my countrys people. you can know that i am a journalist and i also have not laptop. i have to go cyber to post news in cyber cafes. beyond me there are many people who lives in remote area. when they will be educated. It is one of the most challenging work of our country.
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Narayan Poudel
kathmandu, Nepal
ok thanks for comment.
sir you cannot live without laptop in us. But i am very sad to see poor condition of my country’s people. you can know that i am a journalist and i also have not laptop. i have to go cyber cafes to post news. Beyond me there are many people who lives in remote areas. when they will be educated. It is one of the most challenging work of our country.
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I agree with you Balkrishna. Sami, you cann’t live without a laptop but normal Nepali people cann’t imagine laptop because normal laptop in nepal costs over $500, but per capita income of Nepali is around $300 per annum.
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Dema
Muscat, Oman
This post tells us that there are still many countries in the world where the people leading the country are uneducated themselves. And someone who is uneducated has a little chance of realizing the importance of education. The youth of Nepal has to come up and wake up the government to educate the people of their country.
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Narayan Poudel
kathmandu, Nepal
ok thanks for suggestion. we are trying our best but at last se saw that that development without economy is impossible. Poor condition of the country comes to be the main cause. Bye at last hoping you will view news from Nepal.
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Dev
Colombo, Sri Lanka
True, I agree. The youth can not only ask the government to take some steps towards the education but can also take some volunteer steps by educating the small groups themselves. These kind of small efforts will bring the major changes towards the betterment of Nepal. All the best guys!
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Narayan Poudel
kathmandu, Nepal
ok thanks for suggestion.we are trying our best but at last se saw that that development without economy is impossible. Poor condition of the country comes to be the main cause. Bye at last hoping you will view news from Nepal.
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