THE POLITICS OF CHANGE - Reflections on Contemporary Nepal - Deepak Thapa

Thereafter, the beginning of the Maoist insurgency in 1996; the partial and complete takeovers by the king in 2002 and 2005; the Second People’s Movement of 2006; the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement the same year and the end of the Maoist conflict; the adoption of the Interim Constitution in 2007 and the various social movements that challenged its basic premise on federalism and incl. [...] He critiques both the Panchayat system and the democratic era after 1990, declaring the former to be the ‘most xii • The Politics of Change exploitative’ the country has seen while characterising the latter as ‘government dysfunctionalism’ that contributed to the rise and spread of the Maoist movement. [...] Some of these include the country’s security situation and the now-forgotten idea of security sector reform; the evolving thrust in Nepal’s relations with India, China and the rest of the world; the social and political impact of a new set of individuals entering the class of political elites; the rapid pace of urbanisation, urban poverty and the steadily growing urban middle class; and the effect. [...] Ultimately, the unprecedented participation of the people throughout the country changed the political dynamics of the country in each case and the May 2006 declaration by the restored House of Representatives went further and suspended the role of the monarchy from all state enterprises. [...] - It classifies the revenue types to be collected by each level; the ratio of revenue distribution from the federal to the provincial and the local, and from the provincial to the local; and the types of grants to be distributed to the provincial and local levels – financial equalisation, conditional, supplementary, and special.4 2 ‘Sthaniya Sarkar Sanchalan Ain, 2074’, www.lawcommission.gov.np.