• Role of Social Media to Build Youth Capacity

    Internet was new for me about six years ago. When I was about to finish my higher secondary school one of my friends asked me If I had Facebook account. At that time I was unknown about that networking site. So I exchanged my Hotmail ID with that friend to be in touch. During those days I often used MSN Messenger to interact with my friends. While interacting with my friends, many friends suggested me to create account on Facebook. After I created account on Facebook, interacting with friends and see what they are doing became easy to me. I…


  • Youth Employment: Descent Work for All Young People, Everywhere

    While reading mail about the topic provided for this week for blogging competition, It reminded me that I am going to be an educated unemployed after few months since I am about to graduate. After graduation looking for jobs in magazines, roaming here and there in search of job and submitting application along with documents and resume would become my daily routine. Despite good recommendations and score in transcript I might not get job due to nepotism, lack of experience etc. Then there would be no option of preparing for Graduate Record Examinations and go abroad in search of better…


  • Role of Youth For A Cleaner and Greener Environment

    It is said that youths are the pillar, future and good resource of the country since they have potentialities to bring the change. In my view, it is incomplete to explain youth as only the pillar and resource of country. They are parent of up-coming generation as well as bridging link between two generations lying in extreme poles. There is another generation which likes to follow youths and is following them adopting their behavior. Following generation prefer youths to the old because thoughts, norms, values, attitudes, behavior etc. differs between these two generations. Each activity that youths perform has direct…


  • Social Media Training in IAAS Rampur, Chitwan

    Training on Social Media for Bridging Urban and Rural Youth has been successfully completed in 2070/01/29 B.S. (May 12 2013 A.D.) at Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science(IAAS) Rampur campus, Nepal with more than 40 undergraduates of Agriculture and Veterinary Science as participants. Aim of training was to provide knowledge about social media and its wise application and bridge the gap between the rural and urban youths via different social media such as blogs, Facebook, twitter, linkedIn etc. It was organized by environment activists Mrs Kavita Gautam and Mr Jiban Panthi. Program was supported by Youth Action Fund.


  • Semi-mechanized Agriculture System in Terai Region of Nepal

    This picture is representative of farming system of Nepal mainly in Terai. People use tractors, Power Tillers to operate ploughing, disking, harrowing, tillage and also to puddle the field. In this picture, women is carrying seedling of rice (Left side of picture) to transplant it into the puddled field. In background women and men are transplanting rice in already puddled field by tractor. Farmers integrate fruits (Banana in picture) in their farm for home consumption, Mainly varieties used are locals but now-a-days hybrid and improved varieties are also being common. Not only this but livestock in small scale are also…