Kathford International College of Engineering and Management

(Affiliated with Tribhuwan University)

Faculty of Management
BBA 6th Semester/SOC-202 Nepalese Society and Politics
Full marks: 40 Marks

Time:

2.00Hours

Candidates are requested to give their answers in their own words as far as possible .
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Very Short Questions (1*10=10)

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Write the types of economic systems prevail.

How HDI is measured?
Who was the first King of Kirat dynasty?
Write the four stages of life according to Hinduism.
What were the four sights of Gautam Buddha?
What are the five pillars of Islamism?
What is Sakela? How it is observed?
First tourist visa was issued to ............... citizen ......................... legendary Hotelier & pioneer in
Nepalese tourism.
9. When was the Planning Commission established in Nepal? and Who was the Chair?
10. Write 5 cultural heritage of Nepal.
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Short Answer Questions ( 5* 4=20)

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How migration can affect the national economy? Write the consequences of migration in
business and work culture.
Write the importance of agriculture in national economy and illustrate the challenges and
gaps in agricultural sector.
Write the culture and civilization of Malla Period.
Narrate the consequences of the fall of Rana Regime.

Group C (4x2.5=10)
Comprehensive answer questions.
There is a growing recognition of the sovereignty of people making them both shaper and creator of their
own history. The political space for participatory development is widening with momentous social and
technological change. The paradigm shift from the paternalistic, centralized and top-down to participatory,
decentralized and bottom-up approach has gained greater currency in the recent years with the advent of
the notion of participatory development.
Precisely stated, planning seeks solutions to problems in public life or supply a rational foundation for
specific forms of development goals. It attempts to bridge the gap between the normative ideals of
development and the empirical condition that people are caught in. In other words, good public policies
springing up from planning exercise aim to shape the course of its progress which is just as well as
efficient.
Planning has to take into account the polycentric and multi-level governance actorsthe state, the
market, the civil society and the international regime. The polycentric system does not mean democratic,
where public power is proportionately distributed among the governance actors with the necessary

checks and balances. New governance patterns have replaced the old hierarchical national political
system by the dynamic restructuring of competitive and networking forms of governance. An increasing
number of non-states, non-governmental and civil society organizations are taking up public
responsibilities, changing the earlier dichotomy where the state is regarded as public and the private
sector as non-public. The state is, therefore, facing an adaptation problemfrom its earlier mono-centric
problem solving mechanism to the polycentric order. There is a problem of coordination and
communication among local, national, state, regional and global orders and orienting these vectors of
governance to the poverty project.
This shows that planning and policy making are no longer the prerogative of the National Planning
Commission (NPC). The regularity of the Nepal Development Forum and similar policy dialogues indicate
that NPC has to share its policy regime with the state, the market, the civil society and the international
regimes, especially the donors. The planning and policy making processes have, therefore, become more
complex and interactive. But, the sharing of the policy regime has not established a culture of mutual
accountability, for success or failure of policies, regarding poverty alleviation. It has posed difficulty in
orienting planning towards pro-poor governance. An incentive for collective action by the poor
themselves, from bottom-up, and support by friends of the poor, from top-down and outside-inside, needs
to be in place. Such a system needs planning that is capable of linking the Nepalese production and
distribution of wealth and power to the objectives of equity and justice.
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How planning and policy making process become complex and interactive?
How public policies shape the course of its progress?
Write the role of non-state actors taking public responsibilities?
What is the role of private sector and non state actors to establish the linkage between
production and distribution process?

Best of Luck!!