20/08/2026
ItтАЩs not the fear that тАЬindustries might suddenly become profitable,тАЭ Coupon MP!
The real fear is that the stunts of reckless people who donтАЩt even understand the basic principles of profit and loss might push the country into even deeper economic trouble.
If running industries through the state were enough to make them successful, then the monarchyтАФwhich had 250 years of history and was supposedly a thousand times more sensitive and patriotic toward this country than you areтАФwould have turned Nepal into Japan long ago.
The concern is that you might waste valuable time and resourcesтАФresources that should be used to revive the economyтАФon sick and failing industries merely to put on a show for the public. But what do you care about in-depth study and understanding the system?
тАЬViral malariaтАЭ cases donтАЩt have to answer to history. History always asks its questions of the antibiotics and vaccines. Those questions will eventually be asked of people like Gagan Thapa. The burden of the recklessness you create will also have to be carried by them tomorrow. That is the concernтАФnot the fear that the industry might become profitable.
What do you have to lose? тАЬHere comes the mango, there goes the stone!тАЭтАФyou come, make noise, and disappear.
Someone who is determined to make these public enterprises profitable cannot possibly have such a superficial understanding.
When you buy something for Rs. 60 and sell it for Rs. 100, the Rs. 40 margin you see is called gross profit in economic terms. The basic rule is that seeing a profit at the gross level does not necessarily mean there is an actual net profit.
Many businesses around the world appear profitable from the outside at the gross level, but after deducting all expenses, they are actually operating at a net loss. From that Rs. 40, donтАЩt you have to deduct the costs of collecting milk from villages, transportation, chilling centers, packaging, electricity, employee salaries, and machine operating costs? On one hand, you ignore operating expenses and declare it тАЬobvious profit,тАЭ and then on the other hand, you make the absurd argument that someone is тАЬafraid it might become profitableтАЭ?
Another thing that must not be forgotten is that DDC is not a private businessmanтАЩs company, which can simply operate wherever there is profit. DDC also has a state responsibility to collect milk from farmers in remote areas where private dairy companies do not reach. Unlike private companies, it cannot simply set prices as it wishes and extract excessive profits.
I am not saying that loss-making public enterprises must necessarily be privatized. They can be communalized/cooperativized instead. DDC could be run by the farmers themselves. In other words, the government should transfer ownership (shares) of DDC to milk-producing farmers and cooperatives. The board of directors should consist of actual farmers, while day-to-day management should be handled by professionals selected through open competition, rather than political party workers.
If there is a profit, it should go directly into the farmersтАЩ pockets.
ThatтАЩs itтАФthe institution simply needs to be fully commercialized and professionally managed.
