Author: Himalaya Post

“Sharing Knowledge and Experiences on Covid-19 Management”

On 3rd October, the Embassy of India marked the 56th anniversary of the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Day-2020 through a webinar on “Sharing Knowledge and Experiences on Covid-19 Management”. ITEC is India’s flagship capacity building assistance initiative with near global coverage to 160 developing countries, including Nepal. The webinar brought together distinguished ITEC alumni from Nepal as well as expert voices from Government and industry in India and Nepal to exchange views and share perspectives on addressing the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the plenary session, panelists included H.E. Mr. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India, Mr. Dinesh Kumar Ghimire, Secretary, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources & Irrigation of the Government of Nepal, Dr. Bhagwan Koirala, Chairman-Nepal Medical Council and Mr.Padmaprasad Pandey, Deputy Attorney General, Govt of Nepal. They were joined from India by Dr. Alka Sharma, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology in the Government of India, and Ms. Suchitra Ella-Joint MD & Co-founder, Bharat Biotech International Ltd. in Hyderabad. Ambassador Vinay Kwatra noted with appreciation the on-going bilateral cooperation to support Nepal in building indigenous capacities, including under the ITEC initiative. Since last year, several ITEC capsules have been organized at India’s premier institutions for officials from various institutions of Nepal in areas like judicial services for Supreme Court of Nepal, Public Finance Management for Finance Ministry, training for revenue officials, anti-money laundering, countering financing of...

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart !

– Top Lal Panthi This is the age of human resource accounting but effective human resource system does not count the head of people counts only the people who are considered as precious assets for the organization. If you aim to cultivate a better company culture and working environment for your employees, you must be able to go straight to the source and ask your employees directly about their wants and needs. This can be done in several ways; scheduling one-on-one meetings, sending out surveys, having casual conversations, or even taking behavioral assessments. Keeping an open dialogue with every employee about their professional goals or demands will make them feel heard and valued and keep them motivated for the long-term stay. Being a good leader does not just mean being able to effectively delegate roles and promote company success. It also means that you possess the emotional intelligence required to listen to the needs and feelings of others, and act accordingly in response to those needs and feelings. Great leaders know how to empathize just as well as they know how to execute a process. Many organizations in Nepal, they ignore the value of frontline staff due to the lack of literacy regarding the importance of frontiers the organizational system, no doubt there is deep relationship between mission statement, human resource planning, the job analysis and job design. You may come to the battlefield of...

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 Satisfied Customers are regarded as Brand Ambassadors

Durga Chudal Business are established in the society, business introduce, growth and survive in the society as open system. Here all the functions of business are interrelated with each other where society plays the role of unavoidable catalyst in the system. In this regard, business as a system, it intakes all the resources from environment, process them and resulted output, output is distributed to the market which appears as never ending cycle. So business should not compromise the interest of stakeholders while making business decisions. These decisions are related to the functions of business such as pricing, maintaining quality, staffing and other activities. The existing market of Nepal known as demand based market, in this scenario every business house should fallow ethical practice, if they wish fulfill the meaning of their existence. A satisfied customer is one who will continue to buy from you, seldom shop around, refer other customers and in general be a superstar advocate for your business. If you take care of your people, your people will take care of your customers and your business will take care of itself. If you want to survive in competitive market, you should be robustly answerable for the following questions permanently yourself. Before you can set goals for a business, entrepreneurs must be explicit about their personal goals. And they must periodically ask themselves if those goals have changed....

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Narendra Modi’s government has made India open for business

-Akhilesh Mishra If you are a global investor and looking at India as a destination in a rapidly changing world, both economically and geopolitically, then what has transpired last week is what you may have been waiting for all these years. India’s archaic labour laws, which have frustrated many investors and wealth creators have finally been reformed. Yes, you heard that right. India has finally reformed its labour laws! Why is this a big deal? Because even since the economic reforms started in India in 1991, the labour laws have been one stumbling block that have defied all attempts at reforms. Five Prime Ministers before the current one have tried to address the issue but have had to back-off. That is why what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved in one fell swoop is extraordinary. Here is what has happened. There were 44 central labour laws and attendant compliance burdens that any entrepreneur had to earlier deal with. 12 of them have now been outrightly repealed. 29 of them have then been merged in 4 different codes. So, in effect, 44 labour laws and codes have become just 4. These codes are the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and finally the Code on Social Security. The Code on Wages subsumes four acts into 1. The big takeaway is the...

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Meeting of SAARC Council of Ministers held in virtual mode

Annual Informal Meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers on 24th September 2020 chaired by Nepal, was held in virtual mode and saw participation of all SAARC member states. The External Affairs Minister of the Republic of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar & other counterparts participated in the meeting. Informal meetings, held since 1997, take advantage of the opportunity provided by the presence of the Foreign Ministers at UNGA sessions to exchange views on SAARC issues. The meeting received a report from the Secretary-General on the status of regional cooperation since the last informal meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers in New York on 26th September 2019. The meeting reviewed regional efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, participants appreciated the leadership of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India in convening a video conference of SAARC Leaders on 15th March 2020 to take collaborative measures towards combating the pandemic across the region. This included the creation of SAARC COVID-19 Emergency Fund, to which all countries have pledged voluntary contributions. Dr. Jaishankar, in his statement, reiterated India’s steadfast commitment to SAARC in building a connected, integrated, secure and prosperous South Asia. He highlighted a slew of measures taken by India in the follow-up to the SAARC Leaders video conference, including virtually convening health professionals and trade officials meetings, creating a ‘COVID-19 Information Exchange Platform (COINEX), foreign currency swap support...

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