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Schoolteachers Called Off Protests
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 16, 2012: Schoolteachers on strike have called off their protest program after the Ministry has met some of the demands they have put forward in their 47-point demands. The Ministry has agreed to meet the demands for holding an internal competition of teachers working in temporary jobs for giving them permanent jobs, for giving a golden handshake to the temporary teachers not opting for an internal competition, opening jobs to the school employees, and revoking the provision made in the Education Act for registering private schools under the Company Act. Joint spokesperson for the Ministry Rose Nath Pandey said these points would be included in the upcoming revised education act, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
The Ministry has agreed to count the service years of temporary schoolteachers and provide them with one mark for each year of service in the internal competition score, and to reinstate or compensate the teachers forced to quit their jobs during the decade-long conflict.
Teachers affiliated to Nepal Teachers’ Union and Nepal Educational Republican Forum have been protesting with 47-point demands for a long time.
The deal might be the victory for the schoolteachers of the state-run schools but it might adversely affect the private schools, as they could no more run as freely as they have been running registering their school under the provision of the Company Act made in the Education Act.
Most of the state-employed schoolteachers have been engaged in the politics and have worked as the members of one political party or another grossly ignoring their jobs of teaching. Consequently, learning at the state schools has been lowest possible. Parents sacrifice everything possible to send their children to private schools.
