An 11-member sub-committee was formed under the chairmanship of UML MP Chavi Lal Vishwakarma
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The school education bill under consideration in the House of Representatives will be discussed twice in a sub-committee formed by the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee. The committee said that it is going to be discussed in the sub-committee to get a quick consensus on the bill.
For 18 months, the debate on the pending bill in the parliament could not be started. The committee has formed an 11-member sub-committee under the coordination of UML MP Chavi Lal Vishwakarma for weekly discussion. Dashrath Dhamala, secretary of the
committee, said that the sub-committee will submit a report to the committee after discussing the school education bill twice. A deadline has been set for submitting the report within 35 days of the initiation of the discussion.
'The school education bill is big . A sub-committee has been formed to discuss intensively. A sub-committee has been formed so that it would be easier to seek consensus from a small team rather than discussing it in the committee," he said. Dhamala said that after the sub-committee discussed and submitted the report, the committee would discuss it again and submit the report to the House. The
sub-committee has former Education Minister Devendra Paudel, Sumana Shrestha, MPs Rekha Sharma, Dig Bahadur Limbu, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Ram Prakash Chaudhary, Vinita Kumari Singh, and Bina Jaiswala as members. Dhamala said that it was decided to nominate the remaining one member by the chairman of the committee in consultation with the political party represented in the committee. The committee has 24 members and Ammar Bahadur Thapa, the MP of the United Samajwadi Party, is the chairman.
2080 The bill registered in Parliament on August 27 was sent to the committee on October 25 for discussion. The committee has discussed with experts, stakeholders and amendment MPs and collected suggestions at the state level as well. But then the bill could not move forward. In the
bill, 152 MPs registered amendments to 1,758 points/clauses. Among them, only 115 MPs participated in the discussion called by the committee and expressed their views on the amendment proposal. Stakeholders have been complaining that the bill could not enter the discussion stage due to pressure from interest groups.
The school education bill was registered in the parliament only after 8 years of effort when the people's representatives, teachers and private school administrators who were in their interest were constantly putting pressure on the government regarding the jurisdiction of the local level in school education, the management of private schools, etc. Even now, the Nepal Teachers' Federation is protesting demanding the issuance of the School Education Act as soon as possible. During the second phase of the movement, teachers have been protesting at political party offices, education and human resource development centers.
The right to secondary education will be at the local level, and the provisions of the constitution to provide free education up to class 12 will have to be implemented by the Education Act. Article 31 of the constitution states that every citizen has the right to get compulsory and free education from the state up to the basic level and free education up to the secondary level. However, the management of the school run by private investment has maintained the position that it should be operated in the same company model.
Parliamentarians have stated that it should be converted into Guthi and made non-profit/service. Community school teachers have been making demands against the provisions of the constitution, which place the authority up to the school level under the authority of the local government. They have been lobbying the political leadership saying that it should be in the list of common rights of school education association, state and local level.
