Essay on Federalism In Nepal

Regional disparity was a great challenge of our country. It was really difficult to reduce the gap between the prosperous south and the backward north. In order to tackle this problem, the country was divided into 5 development regions so that power could be decentralized and development could be faster. This division was known as regionalism. This system of division done by Late King Birendra could not progress in country hence as the result some days before our current prime minister Mr. Sushil Koirala had divided Nepal into 7 states . 

Federalism is the dual system of government. A single nation is divided into several or more states. There are mainly two sets of government: - self-governing local governments at states and a national federal government at the capital of country. Local governments do not depend upon the central government for power. They are autonomous. They run both administrative and development activities on their own. In short, development is very competitive and administration is efficient. Thus federalism sounds to be more democratic and efficient system of government.

Advantages of federalism are :- 

* Federal system of government represents the unified government of people which reduces gap between people and government.

* It make county sovereign  and democratic

* It gives the right to development.

* It represents the diversity of the state.

* It reduces work procedures because problem of local level is solve by local government.

* Qualified administration

Nepal is one of the sovereign, independent, landlocked country which have diverse geographical structure. According to geography structure it was divided into three region that is Mountain, hilly and Terai region. The total area of the country is 1, 47,181 km² and total population is near by 3 cores. In Nepal there is diversity of caste, language, culture, tradition. According to needs and wants of people political situation is changed. In general politics means an important activity of government but it should be healthy in nature. Politics is the major factor to change in the country, law and social institutions. Democratic state need of people wasn’t fulfilled so again in 2046 movement started but 2047 constitution also failed to fulfill the interest of people and the patience was come out when king Gyanendra started his autocratic government system and peoples movement 2062\63 was accrued and political parties with UCPN Maoist and with people appealed for republic and democratic state at last interim constitution was written for federal republic democratic country. Concept of federalism is very old in context of world but in Nepal it was recently planned to be applied from 3^rd of Ashwin. In general federal state is the decentralization of authority from central to local government. In Interim constitution Nepal was stated as Federal state but government of Pranchanda failed to cooperate with other party and hence as the result we have recently got the federal states of Nepal in the government of our current Prime Minister Mr. Sushil Koirala.