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3000 miles per hour, off they go
What you feel is something in between a bunch of disappointments and a chunk of expectations when a Nepali youth leaves the country for further studies. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Nepalis aged 18-24 have already left the country in the past 10 years.Uttam Shrestha
What you feel is something in between a bunch of disappointments and a chunk of expectations when a Nepali youth leaves the country for further studies. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Nepalis aged 18-24 have already left the country in the past 10 years.
With the number of Nepali youths flying abroad for study at an all-time high, one can’t help but wonder—will they ever return? The answer, unfortunately, is no. Most of them would rather settle abroad. We can pretend to be pensive all we want; even concerned about the loss of youths from our country. But the question is have we internalised the consequences this loss is going to bring about?
Lack of youth will foster lethargy. We can’t always expect the same amount of enthusiasm from people in their mid-forties or fifties as we can from their younger counterparts. They [youths] are almost always more driven, motivated and have stronger work ethic, so other countries reaping those invaluable benefits from our youths is a shame and a hinderance to our own progress.
A county’s development depends upon the total GDP it can come up with and the proper use of that very GDP. So Nepali youths staying abroad and sending just the money does very well to the former part but completely ignores the latter—use of the money.
Without the youth, all the energy and the passion aside, we will lack creative thinking and initiative. Predominantly, they are the ones to innovate. They take initiative and complete the task at hand—essentially, they are the problem solvers.
They are the ones to come up with new ideas to make their own and others’ lives better, and preach for the progress. The only way to ensure the steady pace of a country’s progress is to hit the ground running, to start, and to innovate. Without the youth, this is all next to impossible.
Without its youth, a nation will have harder time bouncing back from downfalls.
Our government is struggling with only four major changes in three years. We have had better people holding the supreme positions of our country. Our roads are sturdier but dirtier. Our taps are cleaner but emptier. And our devices and gadgets are newer but powerless.
It is at times like these that we need youths who can spot every chink in the armour and reverse them.
Countries become better when more of their youths are educated, and when this education is used for the greater good of the nation.
The youth today are of course educated but using this very education for the greater good of the nation is still lurking somewhere behind the wall created by their self-interest.
This must change.
All the excuses—poor economy, poor higher educational institutes, political turmoil—that they are making them abandon their home are their responsibilities to bear. Leaving is not a solution but a pretext. Wiring money and increasing the GDP of the country is only a piece of the puzzle when it comes to actually developing a country.
What we need is youths to take the initiative, be passionate about their nation, and go an extra-mile to develop it.
Shrestha is a student at Liverpool International College