Cooking is done over an open stove in the main room. If they are fortunate, the family might own livestock such as cattle or chickens. Very little can be set aside from year to year, so they are unable to afford basic necessities. Such pleasures as a varied diet, clean water, fuel, medicines, decent clothing, and electricity may not be available. Education is considered a luxury that detracts from the time the children, especially the girls, can spend working. Water is drawn from the.
Dependence on firewood has led to severe deforestation in the hills, and the women have to walk hours to forage. Health facilities are limited. If a member of the family falls sick, they may be carried along treacherous mountain paths for hours to reach a health post.
Often, the men in the household leave the village in search of jobs to help support the family. A prosperous family in Kathmandu may derive its wealth from an aristocratic legacy, or modern occupations such as business, law, or medicine.
They may have houses in the urban center that can be rented out, and also own land worked by tenant farmers outside the Kathmandu Valley. The easy availability of domestic workers from rural villages allows the wife to delegate household chores.
The education of the children is perceived as fundamentally important in securing a future in modern Nepal.
They study in private English-medium boarding schools and go on to complete college degrees abroad. Health services in Kathmandu are good in comparison to the rest of the country, but serious problems such as cardiovascular disease are entrusted to doctors in India or Thailand.
Despite the irregular supply of electricity in the Valley, the family will have a range of electrical appliances and might have invested in a computer with Internet access.
Their lives in Kathmandu are very comfortable, but they share with the poor the common problems of water and electricity shortages, frequent strikes, and the threat of political violence. Economist Intelligence Unit. Country Profile: Nepal. London: Economist Intelligence Unit, Pant, Y.
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One Nepali rupee is made up of paisa. Rupee notes come in denominations of NR1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, , , , and 1, Coins are denominated as 5, 10, 25, and 50 paisa and NR1, 2, and 5. Toggle navigation. Photo by: yeti. Overview of economy. Politics, government, and taxation. Nepal shares a border with two major countries : India and China.
Bhutan and Bangladesh are also extremely close. Nepal is a landlocked country, having no coastal areas or areas with large bodies of water within its borders. Despite its small physical size, as well as being blocked off from significant bodies of water, Nepal finds itself with varied and rich geography.
Everest, its height being just a little more than 29, feet. Though the Himalayan Region is home Mt. Everest, it is also home to one of the deepest gorges in the world, named the Kali Gandaki Gorge. As with many mountainous areas, Nepal has several rivers running from its mountains. The most significant rivers are the Kosi, the Karnali, the Kail, and the Narayani. As the snow melts from the peaks of these valleys, it feeds the water system of the country.
Pleas see the calculation example given below. Katha is a unit of measurement for area. Katha is commonly used unit for land measurement in Nepal and Eastern India. One katha in Nepal is equal to square feet. The symbol of Katha [Nepal] is katha. This means you can also write one Katha [Nepal] as 1 katha. Square Mile is a unit of area measurement. In square mile, all sides are equal to 1 mile in length. Square mile is equal to 2.
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