पुनर्निर्माण कहाँ पुग्यो सरकार ??

न त सरकारलाई चासो छ 
न त आम जनतालाई चासो छ
 न त पत्रकारलाई चासो छ
 न संघ सस्थालाई चासो छ
हामी सब गुमनाम छौ
यो बर्सामा भिजेर रात काट्ने हरुलाई थाहा छ
दुख अनि  पिडा को अर्थ
हे, देश बनाऊछु भन्ने हरु हो
जाऊ ति भत्किएका समाजमा जाऊ
जाऊ ति पालका महलहरुमा जाऊ
जाऊ ति टुक्रिएका मनमा जाऊ
अनि बुज देशको हालत
देशको समस्या , देशको परिभेश।

भिन्न छ बिलकुल भिन्न
तिमीले सोचेको र बुजेको भन्दा भिन्न
थाकेको छ , आशामा छ
केहि पर्खिरहेको छ
अब धेरै पर्खने हिम्मत छैन
जाऊ अनि त्यो प्यास मेटाउ
अनि एउटा बाटो देखाइदेउ
गास,बास र कपासको बाटो
अनि तिमीलाई पुज्ने छन् भगवान सरि
नाच्ने छन् , गाउने छन् तिम्रो महिमा
जाऊ अब ढिला नगर 
जाऊ !!!

डा. गोविन्द के सी ले ऊठाउनु भएको मागहरु एति जटिल छन् कि ति अनसन बसेर पुरा हुनै सक्दैन !!

डा. गोविन्द के सी  ले ऊठाउनु भएको मागहरु एति जटिल छन् कि ति अनसन बसेर पुरा हुनै सक्दैन !!
एसकालागि राजनीति बदलिनुपर्छ, राजनैतिक दलहरु अनि दलका भ्रष्ट नेताहरु बदलिनु पर्छ।
त्यो भन्दा ठुलो कुरो हामी जनता (नेताका पुजारी) र हाम्रो सोच बदलिनु पर्छ।  जब सम्म हामी यीनलाई सत्तामा पुराईरहनछौ तब सम्म न देश बन्ने छ न त  भ्रष्टचार नै  रोकिनेछ चाए त्यो चिकिस्तामा होस्, सरकारी सेवामा होस् या देशका कुनै पनि विकासका योजनामा होस्।
यो आन्दोलन ले जनतालाई झकझकाउने काम भने अवश्य गरेको छ।
यो एक युगको आन्दोलन भएका ले येस्मा धेरै समय लाग्न सक्छ।  यस परिबर्तनका लागि एक ब्येक्ति को ज्यान खतरामा पार्नु ऊचित नहोला।
त्येसैले के सी ज्यु ले अनसन फिर्ता लिएर राजनैतिक र न्यायीक बाटो लाग्दा राम्रै होला।

Why is pipeline necessary for gas and petroleum transport ? Why particularly pipeline ?

Why in pipeline ???

Whole world is linking with pipeline network i.e. either gas or petroleum or water or anything. Environmentalist has been advocating for its negative consequences though the network is growing day by day.
Construction of Petroleum pipeline in Nepal isn't as easy as it is said. It needs a lot of study, lots of money and new technologies. Pipeline can be brought from either India or China in our country. Before thinking about importing the oils and gas, we must search the possibility of gas and petroleum in our own land. If we can find the oil and gas in our own land then the half work is done. We can purify it and construct pipeline linking different parts of the country.

Yes, its hard and complicated initially but there are maximum benefits for long run. This project has multi dimensional importance.Pipeline construction in OUR country doesn't only mean constructing pipeline it has many direct and indirect advantages.

-Construction of a biggest ever project in Nepal
-will be even greater than karnali hydro-power as a scope
-jobs,economy,industries,equipment and more
-price reduction (my initial analysis)
-development of factories and industries
-petroleum pipelines can be used for other transportation like even water
-its a network that connects all parts of nation
-Easy and fast excess

The demand increases as the time elapse. How long we carry petroleum in trucks traveling 2-3 days ??
Its like why pipeline of Melamchi ???
Why not bringing the water in trucks and distributing in Kathmandu ??

Only one answer for Melamchi to be brought in pipeline is its free, that's from our own resources.
So, my question to this is, why don't we study the possibility of the sources of gas and petroleum in our own country. How far we have reached in this regard ??
It is necessary for present and future. Hydro power might be the solution but it cannot cover all the energy uses for few centuries to come. So this project must be built in our country, may be with or without the maximum investment in it !!

A step towards resilient society: Awarness Campaign

"Our society is resilient when we become able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions."

We (Ganesh, Manish and Apil), the students of Khwopa College of Engineering has been conducting the presentation campaign in and outside of the college with a theme "A step toward resilient Society". Its an awareness campaign which introduce about the hazards and its aspects, the present scenario of our country, the understanding and the preparedness of the society, ways of reducing risk (DDR) and involvement of students, youths, society and government in disaster risk reduction. It mainly aims in participating youths in those activities from present and prepare them for future for making our society resilient.
Nepal is affected by different hazards in some regular intervals. Earthquake, floods, landslide, rockfall, GLOF etc. are the major hazard which are of high potential in our country. These can seriously disrupt the functioning of the society directly or indirectly and an individual or society cannot cope with it. Then they become the disasters.

Ganesh, Starting the presentation.

So, Why aren't we able to cope with them ?
Its because our society is not resilient. So, we want a society where we will be able to solve the problems by the maximum use of its resources. For this, we should act at present and bring the output in future. And that's what we are trying to do.

Frequently asked questions

1) What's your presentation about ?
The presentation aims two things. First is to introduce the different hazards with some examples and second is to clear out the misconception that we are having from our childhood.
Different hazards like Earthquake, flood, landslide, GLOF etc. are introduced and some examples of them are shown to make students well known about the scale and extent of its damage in the society.
Students are taught from school level that the above mentioned hazards are the natural disasters. And the main aim of the campaign is to change this misconception that they are not the natural disasters. No, they aren't. Its we(society) who make those hazards the disasters.

YES, Rooftop Rainwater is not sufficient !!

"Water collected from rooftop is not sufficient !!! "

We have been searching the ideas and technologies of easy and efficient rainwater harvesting. But our initial calculation has showed that rainwater harvested from the roof for a house is not sufficient for 12 months. The demand of water per house is so high that the water collected from the roof is insufficient even on the days of monsoon.
Our calculation showed that the demand of a single month(July) is met by the harvested rainwater and water collected of three months of rainy season are very near to the demand.
So, this is the major reason why people don't show interest in installing the rainwater harvesting system in a modern houses. People simply ignore because they know it's not sufficient. So, they install medium sized solar(water) instead of rainwater harvesting system.

Is rainwater harvesting expensive ?
Its not. There are no such expensive thing to be installed in this system. Filter might take some space. It biological sand filter, so its not costly.
In recent building the rooftop water is directly connected to the drainage. So its a bit hard to install this system in pre-existing building. Also the plumbers are not well trained about the system and the techniques of rainwater harvesting.

So, what should be done ?
Yes, rainwater is not sufficient for every months but if we see it for long term its very useful. Its for lifetime and every year we can collect a lot of water saving some good amount of money. For this people should be aware of its importance for long term. Now a days every new house are designed with an underground water so its very easy to collect the rooftop water. Just connect the collected water to the underground storage by introducing a bio-sand filter as a filter media.
For the old buildings the rooftop water should be separated from the drainage connection and should be connected to the storage (either underground or plastics tanks on the ground floor).

Bio-sand filter

Concluding the insufficiency of rainwater, yes, its true, but for long term its beneficial. And this insufficiency of rooftop rainwater harvesting demands another technique of rainwater harvesting called Surface Runoff Rainwater Harvesting. And believe me this technique is going to solve many things like:

• the problem of water crisis, 
• drainage problem, 
• submergence problem of Kathmandu and 
• floods in rivers.

What is surface runoff rainwater harvesting ? How its going to solve the problem listed ? (Next post)

Irrigation Tour 2073, 070 Batch - Summary

We, 070 batch of Khwopa College of Engineering went to 4 days Irrigation tour starting from 14th to 19th of Ashad, 2073. All the 96 students along with 5 faculty members were present in the tour which aimed to visit Bagmati Irrigation Project, Khagari Irrigation Project and Narayani Lift Irrigation Project. Hetauda Cement Factory was also visited as a bonus in this tour.

FIRST DAY
We started from the college. Four buses were manged for  around 100 people which was more than comfortable. Banepa- bardibas highway was selected as going route. So, we travelled in this newly made highway upto Bardibas. Though the highway was small we reached the destiny with ease and fun. Also, there were a lot of engineering used in linking this highway from hills to terai. We felt lucky to see hair pin bends, reinforced wall, gabbion wall and many drainage structures along the highway. We had started at around 8 Am in the morining, had lunnch at 12 PM in Nepalthok and reached Bardibas at around 3 PM.
After we reached to Bardibas, we directly headed towards Bagmati Irrigation Project, head office. It was already 5 PM reaching there. So, teachers had to convince the officers to allow us for Headwork observation. Finally we were allowed though it was late and getting dark.

Summary of Headwork: Bagmati Irrigation Project

Location: Karmaiya, Sarlahi
Start-Completion: June 2008-June 2010
District Faciliated: Sarlahi by eastern canal head and Rautahat by western canal head
Weir/Barriage portion: Barriage type
Major Components: Dividewall ( eastern and western), Fishladder (Eastern and Western), Barriage gates(15 for eastern and 15 for western), Canal Head Regulator( 7 on eastern and 5 on western)


Components of head regulator

1) Guide banks

Plan view of Headwork, BIP

-On both side of the river
-More natural than man made
-Flood bypass is constructed on the right bank (flow direction)

2) Divide wall/fishladder
- One eastern and one on Western
- Extends around 20m upstream and 20m downstream
- Fishladder attached to both divide wall on downstream side
- High silting on fish ladder has disruptted its work

Bus-Mobile Photography

I clicked these photoes during the Irrigation tour by my mobile (samsung J7) . It includes the beautiful pictures from Hills to Terai. 

I just love to watch them time and again. 

Hope you will also love them.

Cheers!! Beautiful Nepal, Beautiful Nature !!!

Introduction to Rainwater Harvesting (RWH)

"Collecting water from your roof and storing it in underground tanks/storage isn't only called THE Rain Water Harvesting. It's a lot more than that !!"

What is Rainwater Harvesting ?

Rain water harvesting is the method of collecting rain water by different methods and making them used for different purposes. Rain water harvesting is not a new topic to anyone. It has a great history. From very past people used to collect rain water in houses in pots, making ponds, wells etc. Science and technology has made it more advanced, easy and efficient for collection of rain water. Many houses, industrial estates, commercial areas, public property and educational institutions have been doing rain water harvesting with new ideas and technologies.

Mainly Rain water harvesting is mainly done in two ways. One is the traditional method of direct collection of water from rain and second is making water infiltrate underground and preserve it underground for future use in the dry season. The latter is a new and demanded process of harvesting rain water.

Importance of Rainwater harvesting
i)   It is clean and free.
ii)  It uses simple methods and is acceptable by society.
iii) It reduces flood and runoff volume.
iv) It is very essential for recharging the ground water and maintain the constant Ground Water Table.
v) Water can be used for various domestic and commercial use which depends on the area of harvesting and method of harvesting.
vi) It saves water for the use in dry water underground.

Scope of RWH
RWH has a wider area of scope. A house, a society and a country can be benefited with this technology for lifetime. It's importance doesn't limit to the maximum use of rain water harvested from the roof in the wet season but also, it provide an amazing guidance to save the overflow of water into the ground and use that water in the dry season.
It can be summarized as:
i)   Use of water for household purpose
ii)  Challenges to install RWH in modern houses
iii)  Saves a good amount of money i,e, economic
iv) Construction of water recharge zone, pits, wells etc.
v) Methods of filtration and treatments in both residential building and recharging zones.
vi)  Withdrawing ground water easily, effectively for the dry season.

What is lift Irrigation System ?

Lift Irrigation System is a mechanical way of irrigaing the higher level land which cannot be irrigated by gravity water. Different structures like canal, barriage, cross drainage structures etc. are built due to which the land lower than the dam level could be easily irrigated but the land higher than the dam level always got dry and bare. So, this system is introduced so that the higher level CCA can also be irrigated and productivity can be increased.

How the system runs ?
First, dam or weir is constructed for the collection of water. Then by the help of pumps, water is transported to the top of the higher level land and stored in main delivery chamber (water storage). From there water is again pumped to irrigate the land or crops. Generally, pipes are layed underground from where plants get water continously at the required rate which can be controlled as per necessity.

Lift Irrigation System

Advantage
Higher Level land can be irrigated.
Water loss is less like evaporation loss.
Land acquisition is less.
Less number of manpower is required.

Disadvantage
Pumps of high capacity is required as per the altitude difference which needs high energy.
It is costly method of irrigation.

What if BLOOD GROUP is visible in facebook ?

Facebook has1.65 billion monthly active users. It has reached almost every countries.
Facebook has launched the LIVE Streaming facility.
Now, I desperately want LIVE GROUP VIDEO CHAT in facebook to come in near future.

But before that, Facebook should think on visibility of BLOOD GROUP of the users. There is no field in profile, overview or about section where a user can input his/her blood group. There are so many facebook groups which has been helping in blood donation with the help of status or post at the critical stage.So, if Blood group is visible to anyone, it would be very easy to ask and donate as there is already the contact no. visibility in Facebook.

How can this be done ?
First, Facebook should provide a section in profile details where user can input his/her blood group.
Second, putting a small icon in profile picture and if it is hovered or clicked, it shows four basic thing
1)Name
2) Address
3)Phone no. and
4) BLOOD GROUP of the user.

(But its not compulsory. If a user doesn't want to show his/her number or address or blood group its fine. They can hide them.)

For example Like this :

My profile with a new property 

I think this will be helpful to everyone. Hope Facebook will understand the importance of this feature.

Beside this I desperately want GROUP VIDEO CHAT though it is available in some apps and skype.

Thanks.

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