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News In Brief
On March 3, 2009, the Private and Boarding Schools' Organization Nepal (PABSON) submitted a memo with a five-point demand for guaranteeing the continuity and security of private schools, scrapping the Education Service Tax (EST), providing private schools with compensation for damaged done during the insurgency, formulating institutional educational law and preventing the intervention of Inland Revenue Department in private schools, to the Prime Minister giving 20-day deadline for meeting the demands.
Finance Minster Dr. Baburam Bhattarai said that the five percent EST collected from the well off schools would be used for the less fortunate schools in the remote area in Nepal.
On March 4, 2009, the spokesman for the government said that the Cabinet meeting decided to set up a few universities in different parts of the country including the Far Western Region. Students have been demanding the setting up of a university in the Far Western Region. The spokesman also told the reporters that the government would consult with the representatives of the different ethnic groups for including them in their respective group, also told the reporters that the government had not decided to enlist various ethnic groups as reported in the media. Tharus have been protesting against the government enlisting them on the list of the Madheshi disrupting the lives in terai.
Two Protestors, Cop Killed in Clashes; Curfew Clamped in Chitwan
On March 5, 2009, the People’s Liberation Army continues to distribute forms for new recruits despite Prime Minister Prachanda’s assurances of suspending the new recruitments.
On March 06, 2009, the Institutional School Teachers Association (ISTU) shut down all private schools across the country demanding not to commercialize and not to politicize the educational institutions but to nationalize all private schools and pay salaries and benefits to the teachers of the private schools following the minimum salary set by the government. They also demanded to stop giving permissions to open schools under the Company Act.
On March 6, 2009, students continued to shut down the Far Western Region demanding to open a university in the region despite the government’s decision on setting up a university in that area.
