New Delhi, July 2 -- Nepal has spent decades discussing roads, hydropower, airports and physical infrastructure. These investments remain essential. But the next stage of national development will not be built only with concrete, steel and electricity. It will also be built with data, digital skills, secure systems and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant technology waiting to arrive. It is already changing how people study, work, trade, govern, protect information and compete in the global economy. For Nepal, the question is no longer whether AI will matter. It already does. The real question is whether Nepal will use AI to create opportunity for its citizens or remain only a consumer of technologies b...