Madhesh 2030 · 2040 · 2050
The conversation Madhesh must have now is about its economy.
Madhesh Next is a citizen-led, non-partisan campaign to make economic possibility a subject of everyday public conversation — in all 8 districts and 136 local governments of Madhesh Province.
Why Madhesh Next?
It is time to put the economy at the centre of the conversation.
For decades, Madhesh has had an intense political conversation — about identity, representation, citizenship, federalism and power. That conversation remains important, and it should stay vibrant.
But another question can no longer wait: how will Madhesh create the jobs, enterprises, productivity and prosperity its people need?
Where will young people find meaningful work? What can a municipality actually do to encourage enterprise? What can Madhesh produce competitively — for the national market, and for the markets across the border?
Madhesh Next exists to make that question impossible to ignore.
दशकौंदेखि मधेशमा पहिचान, प्रतिनिधित्व, नागरिकता, संघीयता र शक्तिको तीव्र राजनीतिक बहस भयो। त्यो बहस महत्त्वपूर्ण छ र जीवन्त रहनुपर्छ।
तर अर्को प्रश्न अब पर्खन सक्दैन: मधेशले आफ्ना जनतालाई चाहिने रोजगारी, उद्यम, उत्पादकत्व र समृद्धि कसरी सिर्जना गर्छ?
युवाले अर्थपूर्ण काम कहाँ पाउँछन्? उद्यम प्रवर्धन गर्न पालिकाले वास्तवमा के गर्न सक्छ? राष्ट्रिय बजार र सीमापारिको बजारका लागि मधेशले के प्रतिस्पर्धी रूपमा उत्पादन गर्न सक्छ?
यही प्रश्नलाई बेवास्ता गर्नै नसकिने बनाउन मधेश नेक्स्ट अघि सरेको हो।
The questions we want asked
- What can our municipality do to create jobs?
- What local businesses could grow here?
- What skills do our local industries need?
- What could Madhesh produce for the Indian market?
- How many jobs were created here last year?
Let us be plain about this
Madhesh Next is not about…
- Madhesh versus the rest of Nepal.
- One community versus another.
- One political party versus another.
- Replacing the political conversation.
It is about something simpler: making economic opportunity, productivity and prosperity a central concern of public life in Madhesh Province — and making that conversation useful to Nepal as a whole.
यो त्योभन्दा सरल कुरा हो: आर्थिक अवसर, उत्पादकत्व र समृद्धिलाई मधेश प्रदेशको सार्वजनिक जीवनको केन्द्रीय सरोकार बनाउने — र त्यो बहसलाई समग्र नेपालका लागि उपयोगी बनाउने।
The citizen instrument
Ask. Measure. Follow up.
Don't ask only what your government plans to build. Ask what economic result it will produce — then ask again next year, and hold the answer against the promise.
- How many jobs did this project create?
- How many new businesses were registered here last year?
- How long does it take to get a business operating?
- What are we producing competitively?
- What skills do local employers actually need?
- What is our municipality doing to attract investment?
- How much local government money goes to economic development?
- What changed because of last year's budget?
Where the work happens
8 districts · 136 local governments
The 2015 Constitution made municipalities powerful institutions. Madhesh Next treats every one of them as an economic actor — with its own profile, its own questions and its own numbers, published where anyone can compare them.
Saptari
सप्तरी
Siraha
सिराहा
Dhanusha
धनुषा
Mahottari
महोत्तरी
Sarlahi
सर्लाही
Rautahat
रौतहट
Bara
बारा
Parsa
पर्सा
How Madhesh Next works
Act · Organise · Ask · Know
Everything the campaign does is one of four things. Every district chapter does the same four — so the work is comparable, repeatable and easy to join.
The people building it
A growing group, one question
Madhesh Next is not yet a formal organisation, and we are not pretending otherwise. Five people convene it today, and the group is growing across the eight districts.
Prashant Singh
प्रशान्त सिंह
Mentor
Anil Mahaseth
अनिल महासेठ
Public Relations Specialist
Sanjog Dev
सञ्जोग देव
Campaign Convener
Ajay Pandey
अजय पाण्डे
Campaign Strategist
Bala Krishna
बालकृष्ण
Media Specialist
Madhesh needs better economic questions.
Start with one question. Ask your representative. Ask your municipality. Ask your province. Then ask again.