Where will Nepal be in 10 years? Many may imagine that in next ten years, Nepal will also become like Afghanistan or Somalia where no good people can stay. But I feel otherwise. In 10 years, Nepal will be at par to fully developed countries and livable like a heaven. At least the words and actions of Nepal's business community, government and the main political leaders clearly indicate to that.

In recent years, many of Nepali entrepreneurs have proved themselves very innovative in businesses by selling sweets to cereals and setting-up restaurants to bottling water plants. Nepal's private sector has shown a true entrepreneurial spirit. They know how to exploit the ignorance of common people by taking advantage of true free market of Nepal, regulated by none but only Lord Pashupatinath.

The foreigners must be watching all these developments with very keen interest. Therefore, within 10 years Nepal will receive thousands of foreign direct investments (FDI). Because, foreign investors have already seen that there is almost zero FDI in this country except few Indian joint ventures companies struggling here to breathe. Therefore, it is a virgin land for them to invest. Foreigners may have also observed that Nepali workers have been working in foreign countries with paltry salary and they are so loyal there. If these very Nepalis are given jobs in their homeland they will definitely be happier and more loyal to the FDIs. Moreover, the new Finance Minister, who is said to be the man with action or man with a gun, has already said that year 2012 will be the ' Year for Investment '.

 

In 10 years Nepal plans to attract more than 20 million tourists a year. Because two years ago Prachanda, the then PM of the Maoist government had announced that Nepal will receive 2 million tourists in 10 years time. Again Maoist is in the power now. So we can definitely hope that they will force many tourists to visit Nepal. They will visit Nepal as well as they do to Vietnam or Russia to see the truly endangered disciples of Lenin and Che Guevara. Tourists will not visit Nepal only to see mountains or for trekking but to get hold of the rarest sights like the YCL camps at factories and to see their commandos' street gang-fights.

 

In a decade, Nepal will produce at least 20,000 megawatt electricity not from the hydropower but from road garbage, wind and cow dung, etc. The impact will be such that Nepal will no more need to import petroleum. By then power consumption will increase so much that export of electricity will be obsolete issue. India, who has been waiting for Nepal's electricity for her industrial growth will be bewildered. The pipeline for petroleum that has been laid out from Lhasa to Khasa of China will be useless. Rather, Nepal will earn a lot of money from the carbon trading because of zero consumption of petroleum products.

 

Many foreigners from American to Europeans and from Japanese to Singaporeans will apply for working visa here as many of them want to work in the developed Nepal in 10 years time. So there will be a huge problem of illegal foreign workers. So the main task of almost all foreign diplomats' in Nepal will be to seek an appointment with Nepali leaders to rescue their citizens from different illegal indulgences.