Dr upendra mahato past life

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Master of his Destiny

“Nation’s prosperity is far more important than any individual’s. No matter how rich I am, I get only that much respect as my country receives,” shares Dr Upendra Mahato, an international entrepreneur and one of the biggest business identities of Nepal. But Mahato prefers to call himself a philanthropist, and also wants to be recognised as a leader of economic agendas. Dr Mahato has numerous business ventures in Nepal and abroad, and is the Founder Chairman of Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA). He is also President of Russia-Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Honorary Consul General of Nepal to the Republic of Belarus. In Nepal, Dr Mahato has his presence in major business sectors like telecommunication, media, banking, health, education and agriculture. He is currently laying impetus on investment in health and agriculture with the soon to open Nepal Mediciti, a world class 700 bedded multi-disciplinary specialty hospital with top-notch world-

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LOVE & LIFE: DR. BIRENDRA PRASAD MAHATO

Rudra Bahadur Karki, May 27, 2014. Karjnahaa is a small and beautiful by situated in Siraha district of Nepal. Despite being a small area, the fame and name of the nation is beyond the broader and over the world. The repute is in regard of the place being the birth nation of Dr Upendra Mahato, entrepreneur, social activist and the first and ex-chair of Non Resident Nepalese (NRN). Mr. Mahato and his family are in pious aim of developing his by and vicinity as mini-Singapore and have been immersing on it. Besides managing schools, hospitals, old-ages homes, and other institutions of social services, the extensive care of integrated development is being care-taken bygd the brother of Mahato: Dr. Birendra Prasad Mahato. He correctly urges that the development of nation is mere a ouppnåelig dröm sans advancement and prosperity of the villages. ‘Material property irrespective of volume won’t assure the real satisfaction which can be bas

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Nepali Times

BACK IN THE DAY: Nepali students along with their international classmates pose for photos at the Red Square in Moscow in 1988.

It was the Cold War and Nepal was trying to steer an equidistance path between the superpowers. So when the Soviet Union offered free technical education for Nepali students, King Mahendra saw it as a cheap and effective opportunity to develop the country’s human resources.

The Soviet Union was competing with the West for influence and reach in the Third World and even if Mahendra harboured misgivings about Nepalis returning from Russia brainwashed into communism, it doesn’t seem to have deterred him. Hundreds of Nepali students who studied engineering, medicine or journalism in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev or Odessa did not come back as communist zealots. In fact, the opposite happened: many went on to become successful businessmen and cut their teeth trading in jeans and chewing gum between Finland and the Soviet Union.

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