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Very High Air Pollution Level nearby US Embassy, Kathmandu

The term "air quality" means the state of the air around us. Good air quality refers to clean, clear, unpolluted air. Clean air is essential to maintaining the delicate balance of life on this planet - not just for humans, but wildlife, vegetation, water and soil. Poor air quality is a result of a number of factors, including emissions from various sources, both natural and "human-caused." Poor air quality occurs when pollutants reach high enough concentrations to endanger human health and/or the environment. Our everyday choices, such as driving cars and burning wood, can have a significant impact on air quality. Air pollution has become a serious environmental concern and a public health risk in Nepal. Government of Nepal has taken various initiatives for the control of air pollution. Air quality monitoring program is one of the initiative of the Department of Environment. Department of Environment is planning to set a network of air quality monitoring network t

What Nepal requires? Hardware Support or Software Support

Every year millions of dollars are being invested in software activities via loans and donations. Empowerment in the name of minorities. Empowerment in the name of gender. Empowerment in the name of caste. Empowerment in the name of geography. Empowerment in the name of ethnicity. Empowerment in the name of income sources. Empowerment in the name of disability. (Unfortunately the definition and the category of the minorities keeps on changing with the type and size of the funding agencies.) Can anyone tell what's the achievement of those billions of investment in empowerment? Let's just imagine the situation where, the 25% of those annual loans and donations since 1990s actually been invested in infrastructure development i.e. constructions and renovations, Nepal would have been the dreamland for million of Nepalese residing across the world. Whatever the achievement has been met in last decade, it's not due to the software activities but due to an accessibi