Corruption In Nepal Essay

Chapter One
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Historical and political Background
1.1.1. Nepal a Brief review

Nepal, a mountainous country in south Asia, had been united by then king Prithvi Narayan Shah during his reign, 1743-1775 AD. After his death his successors also continued unification process and extended the boarder of this nation by 1816 before the Sugauli Sandhi (a treaty done with the then British India at the place named Sugauli). The Gorkha conquest in the late eighteenth century united into the kingdom of Nepal a number of petty Hindu principalities and semi-autonomous tribal groups (Caplan, 1971). In 1846 Jang BahadurRana took over the reign and his Rana successors ruled the nation by 1951 for 104 years as a family rule. In 1951 democracy was established in Nepal but because of political instability the then king Mahendra, in 1961, took over the democracy and deployed authoritarian

It cannot be separated completely from the government as well as from the entire society. So the issue is how to minimize it rather than mitigate. According to Tummala (2009) the main difficulties to control corruption are inadequate and inefficient enforcement mechanisms, lack of political will, and more importantly the cultural context of social tolerance and easy forgiveness. These kinds of difficulties exist to the most of the countries in the world. Administrative corruption is a problem with which all world countries have been grappling to a larger or lesser extent. Act on Disclosure of Information by Public Agencies, 1996 Act enacted in 1996 by the South Korean government with the intent of ensuring people's right to know and to secure participation of the people in State affairs. The Act is enforced to promote transparency in the operation of state affairs. Act provides an obligation to the government for disclosing the matters concerning the information possessed and managed by public