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Internship Program

Learning from its decades years of experience, and most recently, its experience of managing the New ERA Harka Gurung Fellowship involving young research fellows, and the struggle its mentors have been facing for getting their fellows to produce quality thesis papers, New ERA has also realized a need for providing youths opportunities to experience a more grounded, hands-on training for producing quality research.

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Fellowship Program

Dr. Harka Bahadur Gurung was&nbsp;a Nepalese geographer, anthropologist, author, artist and politician, known for his pioneer conservation work. He was born on 5th January 1939 in Lamjung, in the village of Taranche.&nbsp;After completing his secondary education at King George Military School, he studied for a B.A. and M.A. in Geography at Patna University&nbsp;and later received a PhD from Edinburgh University. Dr. Gurung published fifteen books and around 675 academic articles and reports on a wide range of topics from culture, demography, development planning, environment, geography, political economy, and tourism. He held important government posts such as the minister of state for education, Industry and Commerce, Minister of State for Tourism, and was the vice-chairperson of the National Planning commission on Population, Nepal.