The SAG is done and let us congratulate our Nepal Sports Council folks and the people at the Ministry of Youth and Sports for getting the job done. Let us hope that our athletes will get better perks, facilities and will be able to take care of their families as they devote their time, energy and everything else to make us all proud.
I think our organizers spent more money on drones and firecrackers instead of taking care of our athletes. We did hear stories about how our athletes had to borrow guns for their shooting events. Well, that’s how it is in this land of ours.
When you start putting aside chiya kharcha from the total budget then it’s always the thulo mancheys who get to pocket the dough while the real workers or in this case athletes have to be happy with peanuts. Let us all be happy for our vendors and theke-daars who made quite a bundle from the 500 Karod budget. Let us leave something for our athletes as well.
Our government has announced Rs 900,000 for our SAG gold medalist, Rs 600,00 for the silver ones and Rs 300,00 for the bronze winners. We really must find out who came up with this figure and give him a million Rupees prize instead.
Why not 1 Karod for the gold medalist, 50 lakhs for the silver and 25 lakhs for the bronze? We won 206 medals this time. Don’t tell me that this government doesn’t have funds to award at least 100 Karods in cash prizes to our medalists while it spends billions of Rupees for political cadres in the name of development funds for youth and other nataks?
We are not going to win any Asian Games medals anytime soon and Olympics might take another century. The last time we won an Olympic medal was in South Korea and we got a bronze and it was an exhibition event then. But still a bronze at the Olympics is a great achievement in itself.
So, less than a million Rupees for a gold medalist is a slap on the face for our athletes. A political cadre gets a million Rupees for burning tyres and destroying public property and then getting shot by the police. I think we should just ask our athletes to take party membership of whoever is in power so that they can get access to better facilities and pay since our netas only seem to favor their cadres when it comes to sarkari funds.
Our netas spend Karods of Rupees on medical treatment here and abroad. Our athletes do all the hard work while our sports officials make all the moolah. It’s been the same story since the 90s. Now, SAG is over and we have to go back to the daily grind. We may not have to deal with road closures for the SAG or odd and even nataks for a while but we have to go back to our national game which is ‘politics’.
Price of onion is not going to go down anytime soon. Chinese onion don’t taste good as he Indian ones and the Desis are in no mood to life the onion ban anytime soon. Maybe, it’s time our PM Oli won some brownie points from all of us by at least providing one onion per each household to all Nepalese till he stays in Baluwatar.
Our Emperor is waiting patiently for his stay in Baluwatar but it’s not happening anytime soon because Oli Ba is a fighter. He really is like Rocky Bilbao. When you think he is done and out, he just comes back into the ring and give us a little bit of action. We wish Oli well and hope he will be in good health soon but our Oli government needs to relax and maybe take a break for a week and go to a resort nearby and look back since they came to power.
Yes, maybe our government should hire real consultants who can give them at least a few solutions to our country’s problems. We really need to focus on how to reduce the trade deficit with our chimekis not by cutting down on how much dollar we can take abroad for studies, vacation and medical treatment but by promoting our small businesses who offer jobs to millions of Nepalese instead of only favoring tax-evading big business houses.
We will never know who was behind the 33kg gold smuggling nataks? We might never find the killers of Nirmala but our Oli government needs to get on the right track and do what it was elected to do. We voted for them because we wanted stability but the party itself is not stable.
We don’t even know when our Emperor will just decide to ditch his present lover and embrace another one just to stay in power. It has happened before and we are pretty sure that it will happen again. But until the break ups and make ups happen, let us pray that our PM will be in good health and we can at least be able to afford a kilo of onion so that we all can be in good health as well.
Guffadi is a grumpy old man who blogs at guffadi.blogspot.com. You may contact him at maguffadi@gmail.com
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