“Sustainable Rural Development Programs for
Socio-Economic Justice to Himalayan Communities”
As users of our site you already have an interest/awareness in choosing a holiday that causes minimal negative impacts to the environment of the destinations. However, every flight you take produces carbon dioxide (as well as other gases). Poverty Alleviation
Since mid 1980’s several initiatives have been made to raise the economic standard and improve the quality of life of the Nepalese people. The Basic need program was announced in December/January 1985 and the topmost priority was given to it. This program aimed to fulfill the basic minimum needs of people like food, clothing, shelter, education and public security and raise the economic condition of people to the Asian Standard by the year 2000 AD. This program could not bring out any substantial improvement of as dynamic as nature as Asian Standard, due to lack but also could not effect any marginal charge in the people’s living to implement required programs of proper planning and sufficient resources. Nepal was still remained one of the poorest countries of the world.Poverty alleviation has been set out as one of the major objectives by the government and has targeted to reduce population below poverty line from 49 percent to 42 percent at the end of the 1997.
In this way the problem of poverty has posed itself as a big challenge to Nepal. The income and consumption level and overall living standard of the people have remained very low. To raise the living standard of the people in a sustainable manner by alleviating the existing poverty has become the biggest challenge ever. The great majority of the population lives in the villages and the big segment of them is poor. In this context, from the very beginning of the planned economic development process, great stress has been laid on the development of agriculture and physical infrastructure in order to improve the living standard of the common people