The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has finally made its way into Nepal. After the recent lockdown implemented by the government, Nepal is ready to press the panic button. Since the first case, that was confirmed back on Jan 24, there has been an addition of two new cases till date. Although, a little too late government imposed travel bans from countries which have somewhat helped to reduce the risk of an outbreak. The Sukraraj Tropical & Infectious Disease hospital-being the only hospital currently able to test the disease- has tested only about 610 patients due to the limited number of testing kits available.Along with this pandemic, many misinformation has also made its way to Nepal. From government hiding infected cases to different misleading treatments, coronavirus has spread rumors rather than the disease itself. Not only that, some people have even taken advantage of the situation by creating fake shortages and selling goods in the black market mainly masks and sanitizers.
Economically corona has caused a trade stoppage from China and India-the two giants Nepal relies on- creating a shortage of goods. But this time around, the economy is a little less to worry about as a possible mass outbreak is on hand if necessary actions arenтАЩt taken on time.
As precautionary measures is not a forte of Nepalese people and health care facilities are nowhere close to being okay enough to handle a mass outbreak, Nepalese should realize that the best way to fight is staying home. PeopleтАЩs judgment still seems to be clouded by the thoughts that this disease isnтАЩt as deadly as is seems. A high number of misbeliefs such as Nepalese are immune to this strain has made people ignorant about the effects of this virus.
But hereтАЩs the problem. Even though the government announced a complete lockdown since 23rd March, people still have not realized the threats. From creating misinformation to neglecting the orders, people arenтАЩt taking this matter seriously. Even if Nepal does not have a surge of cases now, there is every likelihood that we will have to deal with an outbreak next winter. Also, how COVID-19 will interact with a summer dengue outbreak like last year in Kathmandu is anyoneтАЩs guess. It is important to be prepared with preventive aspects.
WeтАЩve already seen the debacle of many powerful countries. So letтАЩs not panic, but be concerned. What awaits us is truly a matter of life or death.
Miss Tech team, Robotics Association of NepalтАЩs initiation with a vision of encouraging women in a technical field and develop the leadership in them, is all set to organize the third edition of Miss Tech as Miss Tech 3.0:: Women Changemaker тАШTransformational Changes Through TechnologyтАЩ.
We are pleased to announce that Miss Tech 3.0 registration is open from 18th October to 20th November.
Miss Tech 3.0 is a national mass collaboration focused on women empowerment that takes place for one day to solve the issue in the society faced by Women with the theme Women Changemaker тАШTransformational Changes Through TechnologyтАШ. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant solutions to address womenтАЩs needs applicable to women living in various areas.
Participants of Miss Tech 3.0 are required to solve the existing problem in the following eight challenge categories:
Leadership and political participation Economic empowerment Ending violence against women Peace and security Humanitarian action Youth Governance and National planning Sustainable development Agenda Anyone who has a passion for changing the world Engineers, Technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, students, entrepreneurs) are welcome to be a part of this event and to contribute their valuable time.
Know more about Miss Tech 3.0 from here: http://misstech.ran.org.np/ Register for the Miss Tech 3.0 here. https://bit.ly/32mMThn
Support Team Nepal to participate in International Robot Olympics, FIRST Global Challenge!!!
Team Nepal will be competing in the International Robot Olympics, FIRST Global Challenge 2019 starting from October 24-28, 2019 in Dubai.
Shishir Subedi, Shirjan Ghimire from team UARC, winner of Yantra 7.0 National League along with Sarthak Sen, Umang Regmi, Aditya Dhungana will be representing Nepal in this Global arena. Er. Manoj Lekhak, Secretary of Robotics Association of Nepal[RAN] and Er. Niraj Pradhan, Research and Development Coordinator will be guiding the team as Manager and Technical mentor in the competition respectively.
The FIRST Global robot Olympics will be an annual culmination of focused STEM/robotic involvement of exponentially increasing student bodies from all nations in growing collaboration. The intent is to enhance the global call for STEM education in the international student community, while emphasizing the value of nationsтАЩ cooperation in addressing the Grand Challenges of Engineering that our planet and people must address in order to thrive as identified by the national engineering and science academies of the United Kingdom, United States, and China. The collaborative character of leadership in our youth is the defining basis of FIRST GlobalтАЩs success.
This yearтАЩs Team Nepal is highly capable and has passion to be the winner of the competition as Team Leader Shishir Subedi and Shrijan has won numerous competition within the country and remaining participants are strong Robotics enthusiasts and dreams of changing the face of the Nation through robotics and Automation technology. All these participants believe in transferring their knowledge and skillset to the young kids from community school after they participate in the competition.
Last year, team Nepal scored 1st position in the first round and second position in second round which showed that team Nepal is equally capable along with other competition nation to win the biggest robotics trophy and bring it to the Nation.
For the Registration of FIRST Global robot Olympics we will need money to support the Team Nepal for transportation to Dubai,stay in Dubai and for the Robot kit total of USD 10000. For this we are in need of your support. Help us support the Talented Robotics Kids of Nepal and Complete their dream to participate in FIRST Global robot Olympics.
In order to support our fundraising, You can go to the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/first-global-challenge-2019 and donate the amount you feel you can help. From Rs. 1 to Rs.1 lakh, you can donate any amount you can.
You can also donate directly through E-sewa Account: Mr. Manoj Lekhak ID: 9848750707
Yantra 7.0 Science | Tech | Entrepreneurship Festival 2018
LetтАЩs create Robotics Industry Together in Nepal. Register your Robot now!!
Robotics Association of Nepal[RAN] is proud to announce Yantra 7.0 Science, Tech and Entrepreneurship Festival for this Year 2075. This year Yantra consists of International Robotics Competition(IRC), Yantra Learning, Yantra Kids and Yantra Incubation. IRC consists of 5 different events: RoboBusiness Cup, Manual Akhada, Automatic Akhada, Yantra Drone Racing League, Yantra National League.
Creating Robotics Industry in Nepal is envision with RoboBusiness Cup, its an event focused on building Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for all the Robotics Lovers and Engineers & IT professionals of any background. It offers Cash & In-kind Prizes, Product Incubation Program and Business Incubation for the winners of the event. It is a new edition and main event for International Robotics Competition which will create Robotics Entrepreneur in Nepal.
The wait is Over!!!! Yantra is Coming!!! Yantra Science, Tech and Entrepreneurship festival, previously known as Yantra Art, Tech and Science Festival is back with a bang. Stay tuned for more updates. Let us know whatтАЩs your favorite part in Yantra. #entrepreneurship #science #technology #Yantra #RAN #TechnologyForAll #RoboticsForDevelopment #CreatingRoboticsIndustryInNepal
Bhawishya is a national event organized by Ministry of Science and Technology co-organized by Nepal Academy of Science and Technology along with organizing partners like Karkhana, Robotics Association of Nepal and Nepal Innovation Lab targetting young students aged 8-14. In this event, students get a platform to realize and solve real-world problems by building the project on the event day at the event venue.
It is a challenge involving Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design and Mathematics (STEAM) subjects where students work in a team of 3 to build a project/working prototype that solves a real-world problem in Nepal. The problem that team is trying to solve is recommended (not compulsory) to addresses one or more goals mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals but within a certain time frame. Students would have to build the project in the event venue itself and would be judged on the building process.
SCHEDULE
The event would be conducted on the following schedule
09:00 AM to 09:30 AM: Breakfast
09:00 AM to 10:00 AM: Registration and assigning tables
10:00 AM to 02:00 PM: Prototype Building (Judging would be done for the entire 4 hours of work)
01:00 PM to 02:00 PM: Lunch
02:00 PM to 04:30 PM: Exhibition of the prototypes (Open for Public)
On Dec 23rd, Robotics Association Of Nepal (RAN) had formed new team after our Honourable President Mr. Dipesh Khanal and vice president Mr. Ajay Maharan resigned from their post. Both of them have worked very hard to take RAN this level. We would like to congratulate for their successful tenure in RAN. We also wish them all the best for their future endeavors and to achieve the dream they have imagined. After their resignation, new team with the energy of making RAN greater has been formed.
Mr. Bikash Gurung, current Secretary will reign as President of Robotics Association of Nepal along with Vice-President Mr. Utsab Shrestha. Mr. Bikrant karki, will take on the responsibility of Secretary, Mr. Binod Kandel as Joint Secretary and Mr. Prabesh Sapkota as Research and Development head. This team will act as RAN Core executive team.
RAN core executive team pledge all the members, Robotics enthusiasts, Supporters, Partners, Collaborators, Tech Hobbyists, students, innovators, tinkerers and everyone who are working for the development of Nepal through Robotics and Technology that RAN core executive team take this moment very important and wish for continuous love, support, suggestions, feedbacks for making the RAN greater.
This team believe in thoughtful action, so working together we will begin the task of developing nation through capacity building, problem solving and untapped potential of our members through innovative projects.We will strengthen our team at Biratnagar and Pokhara, thus making RAN strong all over the Nepal.
The 3 CтАЩs will be heartily followed : Collaboration, Creativity and Communication along with three PтАЩs : People, Process and Platform. With this, we will move forward with our thoughtful plans and projects like Yantra, Miss-Tech, Ujjwal Education, Makerspace and many more to take RAN step ahead. We will have great relationships with all our members, partners and collaborators.
This dynamic team has great potential, energy, agenda and commitment to work, creativity flows, innovations are thought here everyday, desire to be successful can be seen everywhere. This team need congratulations and well wishes to work for RAN, to work for Nation and to work together.
A drone, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is an aircraft without a human pilot which can be controlled either autonomously by onboard computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground. As Nepal is one of the Himalayan countries, initially drone was used to carry important raw materials where transportation was not facilitated. With the massive use of drones, Civil Aviation Authority for Nepal (CAAN) proposed a law to regulate the drones uses in the country. Now, the drone is used in military services, rescue operations and for recreational purposes like taking personal photos, and videos. In Nepal, we can use drones inside our home and in our personal gardens. However, we need special permission from CAAN to use it, other than our personal properties.
Requirements:
Request letter
A filled up application form
This request letter should be written to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal asking for permission to use
A copy of Operation Specifications of Drone.
A copy of the map of the operation area.
Copy that shows latitude/longitude of operation area.
No Objection Recommendation letter of concerned owner/Unit if operation area is over private/ Public place or property.
If the operation area is on public property like roads, temples, etc you need to have a no-objection letter from the Department of Road and other such departments.
Letter from the concerned authority for a security clearance or other clearance.
This security clearance could be taken from the operation areasтАЩ Police Headquarters.
Cost/Time
Cost: You do not need to pay money to get permission to fly the drone.
Time Taken: After your all required documents are submitted and are simultaneously accepted by CAAN, you can get permission from CAAN to fly a drone within 3 days.
Process
1. First of all, you should take a permission letter from the Municipality of the places that you want to fly a drone
2. Second, you need to take a recommendation letter from the CDO office. The CDO office will give a recommendation letter only after getting the permission letter from the municipality.
3. After showing these two letters to the Police Headquarters, the police headquarters of the places that you want to fly your drone will give you a security clearance letter or even provide security to the areas that you want to fly your drone, if necessary.
4. Then with a security clearance letter and all the documents listed above, you should submit the documents to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal in the Drone operation permission department.
Additional Information
Note: Like other government offices of Nepal, CAAN is open from 10 am тАУ 4 pm on working days and on Friday from 10 am to 3 pm.
There are limited laws to use a drone in Nepal, some of them are listed below:
1. You do not need permission to use a drone from CAAN if the drone is under 2 kg and you are using it under 200m on your personal properties like inside your house, land, and garden.
2. The aircraft must be kept within the visual line of sight (normally taken to be within 500 m horizontally and 400 ft vertically) of its remote pilot (i.e. the тАЮperson in chargeтАЯ of it). Operations beyond these distances must be approved by the CAAN (the basic premise being for the operator to prove that he/she can do this safely).
3. Unmanned aircraft shall be permitted to be operated in day VMC conditions only.
4. CAAN permission is required for all flights that are being conducted for aerial work subject to the approval of the concerned Authority having jurisdiction over such aerial work.
5. If the operations are to be conducted in a Restricted or Prohibited area, prior approval from the concerned Authority is required before applying for CAAN permission.
6. Airport areas including take-off and approach paths shall be free of all UAV activity at all times regardless of altitude.
7. To use a drone in Nepal, you cannot get permission for a longer period of time like for a year but can get it for a short period of time.
