Mahabir Pun (pictured above) used to pen love letters during his school days. Now he rewrites a verse from Bhupi Sherchan’s poem: ‘A country can’t move ahead unless some men die for their motherland.’
Now, Nepalis from around the world are helping to make telecommunication expert Mahabir Pun’s dream of a donation-based National Innovation Centre.
“Sacrificing life for one’s country isn’t relevant anymore. We need donations for development, not martyrdom,” says Pun.
After waiting three years for the government’s help to build National Innovation Centre (NIC) in 2013, he has now turned to the people for donation and is happy with the response it’s getting. “Let’s not talk about the government anymore. With the help of the people, the innovation centre will start working from this year.”
With the target of collecting Rs 500 million to build the centre, he started the donation campaign five and a half months ago but also faces challenge of producing 10MW hydropower to supply energy to the centre.
There are hundreds of experts working at the Ministry of Science and Technology, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Nepal Agriculture Research Council and universities which were formed solely to work in the field of innovation and carry out scientific studies. So why do we need another similar organisation?
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