personal feeling about the article. I feel that the article is just Lalamani ji's personal feeling and it does not represent the formal voice of the government. It is more like a self-praising article saying what he did, what he did are good and what 30 million Nepali should do or should not do. This article is like a political speech given by one of our conventional "great leaders' of Nepal without any concrete and convincing idea and plan telling how to make rescue work more efficient and how to move forward efficiently and effectively for rebuilding the affected areas in as much short time as possible and soothe the pain of the people hit very hard by earthquake.

Lilamani ji has mentioned that the government could not provide all the services as needed because the government is "poor", However, he did not mention (or did not like to mention) anything about the huge supports rushed to the "poor" government from outside Nepal. This shows that the government is "poor" not only in resources but also in "thinking". There is not a single word of appreciation in the article for the huge support of the foreign supporters that already cane and are coming with good intention.

Lilamani ji has forgotten the main reasons as why the foreign governments and organizations responded so quickly and rushed their support in such a hurry to Nepal creating some chaos for about a week. There are also report of foreigners creating some chaos in the rescue work. The chaos had happened mainly because of the small capacity of international airport and inability of the government to coordinate and manage the incoming supports in such a short period. Finding ways wisely to be cool and calm in order to channel the incoming support for good cause and at the right place is the duty and responsibility of the government.

The foreign supporters rushed to Nepal with support whatever they could assemble quickly because they already knew very well that Nepal government is poor and that it is not prepared to handle such a huge disaster by itself. What the supporting foreign governments and organizations did not know was that the political leaders and bureaucrats of Nepal are so poor in thinking too.

Therefore I would like to humbly encourage the political leaders and higher level bureaucrats of Nepal to think a bit more broadly and not to be so "proudy" at the time of disaster. The narrow thinking and proudness is not going to help much to help rebuild the affected areas and soothe the pain of the villagers at a time when monsoon is coming soon and government is financially poor. Please don't make the pain of the people more painful. It is time to work wisely by coordinating the rescue and rebuilding effort and by accepting all kinds of support with appreciation from individuals, organizations, and businesses from Nepal and from all over the world. Even a single Rupee of support given by a person counts.

Thank you.