Civic

Plain help for Nepal

I deal with these systems as an accountant, as a founder registering a company, and through our family's export paperwork. This is where I write down what I learn and what I think could work better.

Guides & notes

Aug 2026 Should a garment factory need its neighbours' signatures? Note Low-impact businesses should be judged by safety, environmental and operational standards — not by whether every neighbour agrees to sign. Jun 2026 Three small fixes for Nepal's online public services Note Not complaints — practical, buildable suggestions from someone who builds business software.

Work already underway

Real, with an honest status

These exist as working code. Neither is released, and neither is deployed outside our own use — the status on each says exactly where it stands.

Confirmation Portal

Transaction confirmation and reconciliation, built as a plugin for SAHARA CORE. It takes transaction data uploaded from Excel, carries it through a confirmation and reconciliation workflow with WhatsApp follow-up, and prepares Anusuchi-13 data and output. This is the civic-adjacent problem I actually work on: the compliance step that costs small businesses the most manual effort.

SAHARA CORE plugin · in testing

School attendance

SAHARA HRM reads the biometric attendance devices a business already owns and turns that into private summaries for the people entitled to see them. The same system could serve schools — attendance counting, and summaries reaching a parent’s phone rather than a noticeboard. It is a use-case for existing work, not a separate product.

Possible use-case for SAHARA HRM · not built for schools

Problems I may explore

Not started

Separate from the work above: things I have thought about and not begun. Each carries its own status, and no terms are promised for anything that has not been built.

BS ↔ AD dates

Every ledger here needs both. Whether this deserves to be a separate public tool, I do not know yet.

Idea · not started

Registration, written down properly

What to carry to which office, in what order.

Guide only · no software built

What I care about

Citizen guides

Plain-language how-tos for everyday government — passport, PAN, licenses, citizenship, company registration.

Digitizing government

Why so much is still manual and paper-based — and what could realistically move online.

Small-business support

Registration, tax, and compliance made understandable — from someone running a real business.

Education & tech in schools

Digital literacy and practical technology in Nepali schools.

Local governance

How local municipalities could serve people better with simple tools.

Tech policy

Internet, digital payments, data, and the IT industry in Nepal.

Something broken you'd like fixed?

If you've hit a wall with a government process — or you've found a way through one — tell me. I'll write it up so the next person doesn't have to learn it the hard way.

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