Principle of Survival Techniques in Fire

Even though you and I am not profession fire fighter, sometimes we need to control the fire but before jumping in to the fire, you should know the basic principle. You should know the basic principle. You should have the knowledge that the size of the fire i.e. height of danger that causes the fire. Yes, obviously I am talking about the theory on fire. Since you are not profession, then you should isolate yourself from the fire and then only you can go for action like calling the profession as soon as possible. You can support those professional but again before you should know the cause of fire, causes may be electrical, burning of solid materials like wood, cloth, Metals and plastic and let the professional work on it because they are always trained for such emergencies like regular training with different types of fire. They always prepare them self for fire emergencies. They have gained knowledge of escape routes, before they fight fires. They are always aware of dangers caused by fire. We, common people didn’t give a damn about the cause of fire inviting them for more and more destruction. But those professional gives a regular inspection and repair all those weak parts that may causes fire. They always try to maintain the fire detector, fire alarm for fire warnings. The use of fire extinguishing equipments like water, foam, CO2, dry powder extinguisher depending upon the type of fire. Now a day, portable extinguisher can also be used in every place where fire can take place anytime. Sands can also used for extinguishing fire on floor. Different types of Breathing Apparatus, its set and fireman’s out fit for preventing oneself form the fire.

So, one should know what should be done during fire emergencies. Each and every people should now to control fire. Fireman should know the fireman’s outfit like Breathing Apparatus set (BAS), Safety lamps (last for 3 hrs), fire proof life line for taking out the fireman from the fire place, fire axe for easy escape, non-conducting gloves and shoes, Rigid helmet and set of Protective clothing. Yes, fire-resistant and water proof as well. With all these equipment you can easily fight the fire, no matter how strong the fire is.

No-doubt, kidnapping is one of the fastest growing business in Nepal

Fastest growing business in Nepal, kind of weird, isn’t it? Now, it’s a business due to instability of political condition. On 15 January 2008, when a major racket was busted, it was found out that kidnapping in Nepal become a rapidly growing organized business.

Bhimsen Pandit of 28 years, Kathmandu, Sanjaya Shrestha of 32 years, Thankot, Kathmandu and Rohit Paliwal Agrawal of 27, Uttar Pradesh, India alliances such business. These people are succeeding their kidnapping smoothly. Rajendra Sharma was released with NRs. 8,00,000 ransom, Ganish Bihari was released for NRs. 8,50,000 ransom, both after four days of captivity. Likewise, Binod Sharma Neopane paid NRs. 7,60,000 ransom for his release, this was occurred a month ago. After the investigation, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sher Bahdur Basnet at Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD) Hanuman Dhoka, Kathmandu informed that Rohit Paliwa Agrawal, an indian national masterminded the kidnapping, Bhimsen Pandit execute the planning and Sanjaya Shrestha, driver in Agriculture development Bank, New Road Branch, job was to drive the victim away and collect the ransom. To executes such planning they have rented three banglowfor NRs. 26,000 a month and to hold the kidnapped in captivity. The rented house ermain mostly unattended and lacks furniture. It has come to know that the group uses the bungalow for both kidnapping and partying said Senior Superintendent of Police Upendra Kanta Aryal Chief of MPCD. The Kidnappers used the victims own cell phone for negotiate ransom amounts. Police have seized four of their vehicles including Santro Car, Maruti Van, Mitsubishi Lancer and a Ford Icon including all of their weapons like pistols and bullets. Police also found five fake private number plates, adhesive tape, rope and various sharp weapons to seize the kidnapping.

Writing an application

It is difficult for some people to write an official application letter. They keep on thinking and thinking. Yes, it is also difficult for me to write an official application letter on any kind of leave. Let’s take an example of sick leave or medical leave. Tried a lot and finally, I came up with something. This might help you a little bit. If you are really not fond of writing any one when there is utmost importance of writing one. So, if you really don’t want to lose a job and you also don’t know how to start. Then, write they way I did. It may come handy. Remember, it should be short and to the point because bosses has no time to read such bullshits when they are angry not seeing you in the office at time and when they need you the most.
Here you can see a simple and easy way out to write an official application letter. You can try it.

Format

Date: 15th January 2008

To: Managing Director
(Name of your office)
(Location of your office)


Subject: Sick leave for 4 days

Dear Sir/ Madam,

With due respect, I, (Your name), is requesting for leave of 4 days as I had a (reason of taking a leave) on 13th of January 2008 (Saturday) in (place where the incident happened) causing an injury on my right/left foot. I thought I would soon recover my health but till this date I couldn’t recover. I am taking my medication and slowly recovering as well.

I will try to attend office from 17th January 2008.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best regards,

(Your Signature)

(Your name)
(Your post/rank)
(full name of the office)

Terrorism in the world

Terrorism is defined in many ways in different notion. For me, terrorism is harmful, dangerous threat committed against civilian in the name of religion, politics and for other ideological goals. It can also be defined as the act of opposing the government with the help of weapons. It is a forceful attempt especially with weapons including IDE’s to Human bombs for the political change i.e. government. These people fight with the government using weapons, always on hunt for the important government official, are terrorist and such movement is known as terrorism. They call themselves Rebellions, Extremist. The main purpose of those so called Rebels are to wide spread arm conflict and to threat millions of civilians.

The incident of 9/11 and Al Quaida, Hijacking of lots of plane and asking for ransoms and freedom of their commander who got caught in action, RUF in Africa, Tamil Tigers in Sri-Lanka, Jammu – Kashmir and so many more. In case of Palestinian and Israel, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. When a Palestinian terrorist was killed by the security in Israel, then the dead was honored as war hero and vice versa. Osama Bin Laden is a most wanted terrorist for USA but a hero for his kind, fighting for Jihad. For them this is a holy war against all the Christian i.e. devil in west (so called Islamic people gave this name to those white skin). He is known for crashing of two hijacked planes against the icon Twin Tower in Sept 11th, 2004. the day is remembered as 9/11. And again, the bitter war between India and Pakistan for over a very beautiful place called Kashmir. They call it a conflict between hindu and muslim. People from all around the world knows that this is some political issue but both of the country bring this fire out as hindu-muslim conflict. In Nepal, Maoist almost cracks out as terrorist due to the corrupt political status, a huge corruption. His Majesty’s government once declared them terrorist as they are causing threats to those remote villagers, using children for war against Nepal Army, Police. They were blamed that they used poor illiterate villagers as human shield in war and many more blames. Fortunately government of Nepal solved this problem by calling them for their participation in the election. The government gave them a chance to take part as a political party but not a terrorist group. In Sierra Leone, Africa, RUF (Revolutionary United Front) was first established due to the corrupted political status, in the name of helping the helpless civilians like providing free education, supporting poor family, jobs etc. They were like a social organization. But this group starts killing their own kinds; make them slaves for diamond mines. They use poor civilian from a child to a helpless old people. These helpless people purchased their life from them for another day or two by working for them. If they are not in condition of working, they got killed by these RUF. Such injustices, brutality, cruelty, anarchy was finally terminated by UN’s small but heavenly movement against these RUF.

The main conclusion is that how far the terrorism goes, one day it has to come to an end like they did in Sierra Leone, Nepal and many of other fortuned country. The brutality, anarchy won’t last forever because human cannot suffer injustice for that long period of time.

The propagation of Population Statistics and a small history about it

The valuation of population size and economic status has been the major study of man kind. Different philosophies were integrated on above assessment “Population Theories”. One of the philosophies is to link population size with economic level of the population. Since, then, the main source of income was agriculture. The initial population theories were developed in terms of the relationship between land and man.

Many century back, Chinese philosophers includes the view that the excessive growth in the no. of people may depress the standard of living. Famous philosopher Aristotle too agreed that the land property could not be increased as rapidly as the numbers of inhabitants. As a result, poverty was likely to be the outcome. A famous contemporary of John Graunt (the pioneer of the population statistics) was William Petty. He developed a political arithmetic involving the measurement of the effect of population in Human affairs.

In the following generation, eminent persons of other fields like science took an interest in population study. Edmund Hally, an astroner was the first to attempt to construct a life table on the basis of recorded death statistics. The basis of his work was the assumption that birth and death rate of a population will always remains the same. But subsequently, he came to conclusion that it was difficult to maintain static or stationary population. Similarly, there came Richard Price, who constructed a reliable life table, but again in the belief that population was stationary. T.R. Malthus, who is considered as the father of modern population theory, observed that it is the natural tendency of population to increase in geometrical proportion unless other wise checked, where as food increases in arithmetical progression owing to the nature of land. Since then, lots of developments in population theories have been made and these theories have given the population studies a new dimension as Demography.The date relating to human population is called population statistics. Population statistics is the oldest of all statistics collected by nations for keeping good estimation of man-power to protect the king himself. In fact, the study of statistics was started as the study of population.

Employment Permit System of Korea, excellent news for Workless Nepalese:

Employment Permit System for foreigners allows employers who have failed to recruit native workers to legally hire an adequate number of foreign workers and EPS is a system that the government uses to introduce and manage foreign workers in Korea in an organized manner. This system construct efficient employment management system for foreign workers, apply identical labor condition and human right as the native workers and prevent absurdity for workers once selected and invited by the government.

Nepal Government is trying and succeeding in winning the South Korean Labor quota after a Korean commission led by Korean labor minister Lee Sang. Ramesh Lekhak, minister for labor and Transport Management discussed with Mr. Sang about this matter since January 2007. After the delegation, Korea is kind of satisfied over Nepal’s development in basic structure to win Employment Permit System (hereinafter referred to as EPS) of Korea. According to Uddhav Baskota, spokesperson at the Ministry said, “We have got positive signals from the delegates to include Nepal into EPS Korea and also quoted that “Mr. Sang is very satisfied with Nepal’s preparations to meet the basic requirements to send its labor force to Korea and Korea will decide it by the end of February. The Spoke Person also said, “If Korea decides to finalize it, then, Korea will invite us to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Korea.”

If this EPS works out between these two country, then it is assumed that more than ten thousand Nepalese will be working there in Korea with not less than Nrs. 1,00,000/- (more than US$ 15,000/-) of salary. As far as I know, Nepalese whoever wants to work there in Korea must have passed SLC exams, secure 60 percent marks in Korean Language test, which cost US$ 30 only and must have knowledge or basic training on the nature of his dream job. Under EPS, the employee must bear visa fees, medical check, air ticket and other like pre-departure arrangements. And the best part is that foreign employee will be equally treated as their Korean contemporaries. The foreigners will receive employment training within 15 days of their entry into the country. EPS allows foreign workers to work in areas of manufacturing, construction. Human Resources Development Service and other non-profit organization will organize training of basic computer knowledge and other educational stuffs.

Department of Foreign Employment Promotion, Nepal - Labour Department in Nepal

Just trying to give some information about this department like its definition, what is the main purpose of this place? how does it work? etc, etc.

Well, this department falls under the Ministry for Labor and Transport Management, Nepal. This Ministry is lead by Minister Ramesh Lekhak. The main purpose of this department is to provide security to those people going for foreign employment through any manning agent who holds the license from this ministry for human resource for foreign employment. Unfortunately, if somehow anything happened to the worker like loosing of hand, leg during his/her duty hour or even death then the victim’s family only hope will be this department. They should come and complain against the manning agent for their injustice.

The whole department is divided into 4 sectors. They are follows by giving numbers.
Sector where Manpower Company (hereinafter referred to as MC) must be registered: In nepali, its Sanstha Darta Sakha, where newly established company must be registered so they can work legally i.e. government license holder and running companies should be renewed every year. If not the company may get seized and they cannot try to employ. So, they should renew their company every year. A team of one section officer, four of junior staff (so called Na. Su. in Nepali), a government lawyer and a peon. But the final decision is always given by the Director General (hereinafter referred to as DG).
Sector where MC get permission to advertised for foreign employment publicly: In Nepali, this sector is known as Purba Sakha, where MC get government approval for public announcement of foreign employment, with their strong paperwork empowered by foreign employers. This permission can only obtain by MC if they are registered or renewed at given time. Public announcement is made through the media, newspaper. Like before a team of two section officer, four of their other desk staff (Na. Su.) and two peon. But as again the final decision is always given by the DG, after looked over by the director for this sector.

Sector where MC gets final approval to the employee for foreign employment: In Nepali, this sector is Antim Sakha, where MC provides every sufficient document of the individual with visa that is ready to go for their foreign employment. After their approval, the individual can easily pass through not only immigration office but also from the labor desk. Like in other sector, this sector also managed by a team of two section officer, four of their desk staff and two peon. DG doesn’t have to care about this sector but one of the two directors, director of this sector have to take care of any illegal movement.

This is the main agenda or streamline of this ministry. So, each of us knew, how this place runs and how important it is in our country. It’s all about saving life of people after all. Isn’t it?
But again, like every other government office, ministry, department and whatever, this is also super corrupt. The staffs from top to bottom are all blinded by bill. Those government staff doesn’t need any document for approval, they can do it for some bills. Whenever victim’s family claims their rights to MC through this department, they were/are/will be dismantled ever and each time by MC with the help of this department.There are still loads of loads of interesting stuff to tell but for right now, no more. It won’t finish within a year even.

Gurkha’s what they do after retirement

In Nepal, most of ex British army start their second career opening manning agency for gulf countries, Europe, America and Asia. I mean human resource all over the world. This ex-soldiers established same discipline, working style in their new working place. In gulf, the most wanted workers are low class work like labor with low salary. So, most of the people who go for foreign employment are those, who are unable to earn Nepalese 10,000/- per month. And, still there are thousand of people go for foreign employment every year.

In Nepal, there are over 700 manning agencies till date. And most of the manpower or overseas or consultant are owned by ex-British Army and I am able to collect the name of the owner or so called Managing Director of only 50 manpower. They are as follows by given numbers.
1. WO2 Ram Prasad Gurung ex 6GR British Gurkha Overseas Services
2. Capt. Bharat Sing Thapa ex1/2GR Global Overseas Services
3. Capt. Suk Bahadur Gurung ex 6 GR Pioneer Overseas

Poppy day, 11th November and Paying Respect

This day was commemorated on 11th month, 11 hrs, 11 min every part of the world in the memory of those fallen soldiers of World War I and World War II. Soldiers, sailors, air force and even civilians who fought and died for their country. This poppy day is known by different names in different countries. In United Kingdom and Australia, it is know as Remembrance Day. Poppy day in Malta, South Africa, Nepal. Veterans Day in United States. Armistice Day in France, New Zealand.

This day was created by King George V on 7 November 1919 upon the suggestion of Edward George Honey. Some of the countries like UK, Canada, South Africa, it’s a tradition in which two minutes of silence at the 11th hr of the 11th day of 11th month as this is unforgettable time when armistice become effective. In some countries, it is a holiday for government employees.
There is a story behind wearing of poppy, which shows respect to those fallen soldiers of World War I and II and many other wars as well. The poppy’s importance to this commemoration day is due to the influence of Canadian military physician John McCrae’s poem “Flanders Fields”. The field, where poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefield of Flanders after the bloodshed. And, the red color of poppies symbolizes the bloodshed of the war.

There are variety of poppy like poppy curled at the petals with no leaf, white poppy and so on.
The white poppy is a symbol of peace, first produced by Co-operative wholesale Society (CWS) who after allied with Peace Pledge Union (PPU) and took over production and distribution. The wearing of white poppy brings a controversy as a disrespect to those war veteran’s remembrance indicating that those who wear red poppies are in favour of war. But, these are all political rhymes. They are unstoppable, they will keep coming like virus and uses all the source for their own good.
John McCrae (1872 – 1918), Canadian Poet & Physician

In Flanders Field

In Flanders field the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That
marks our place

In Nepal, many people still don’t know about this extraordinary day. This even is well known in some of the field like Embassies, people working with ex-soldiers. The place where I work distribute this flower before 11th November every year to all those who work with us, who work through us and tell those stories to them who don’t know nothing about this. Collects funds from them which is then forwarded to British Embassy. The fund, then used for those fallen soldiers family and other helpless people by them.

Impotent Government and abducted Journalist

Nepal government and its seven political alliance shows its weakness when it comes to illegal activities of at least one political party. Birendra Shah, a journalist, was abducted for a month on 5 October 2007.

This incident highlights the insecurity in the country under which people have to rely on.
The disappearance/ abduction of Journalist named Birendra Kumar Shah shows the impotence of the government when it comes to handle the illegal activities of at least one political party CPN (Maoist). This journalist has been disappeared for a month from 5 of October 2007. When media fought against it, Home Minister, Prime minister and Maoist promised to bring out the fact of this unfortunate incident to public. A high-level probe committee formed by CPN (Maoist) take out the investigation. And found out that he was shot dead in Bara District. Lal Bahadur Chaudari, Ram Ekwal Satani and Kundan Phoujdar were involved in the killing of Sah. These Cadres abduct him and his colleague on the context of giving news on timber smuggling. These
Maoist Cadres opened fire at him and buried him somewhere near Sukhuwa.

This incident helps government to focus on the security situation in the country not only for Journalist but for the ordinary people trying to live their insecure life. This kind of incident points the growing sense of impunity that some of the so called political party is enjoying. This incident has drawn much needed attention as this is about a Journalist’s abduction and main reason for media to highlight this unfortunate incident. This incident highlights the insecurity under which people have to live. But, let us raise the question for other common people, too.