The bill stipulates that private schools will gradually become non-profit and they should provide full scholarships to 10 to 15 percent of students.
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The owners of private schools have expressed their displeasure over the system of gradually making private schools non-profit and providing full scholarships to students.
The administrators have also warned that they will go on strike if the school education bill is not amended. Hisan, Pabson, NPabson and National Pabson made a joint statement on Sunday and put forward 4 points of demand. It is stated in the statement that if the demand is not addressed and the bill is not amended by July 28th, the protest will be forced from the 29th.
On July 22, the School Education Bill was passed by the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee. The bill stipulates that private schools will gradually become non-profit and they should provide full scholarships to 10 to 15 percent of students.
Full scholarship is defined as the fees charged and provided by the school, including tuition, examinations, textbooks, learning materials, clothing, transportation and residential facilities (if available at the school). . MPs have been saying that housing facilities should also be provided. In this regard, the committee has also instructed Education Minister Raghuji Pant to submit a blueprint. The private school administrators have demanded that the current practice of giving scholarships to only 10 percent of the students should be continued. The bill provides for 10% scholarship for up to 500 students, 12% for up to 800 students and 15% for more students.
In the same way, some parliamentarians made the amendment that private schools should be transferred to non-profit groups by specifying a certain year. The committee has agreed to take the non-profit gradually rather than year. The secretariat of the committee is writing a report on the bill. Krishna Adhikari, president of Pabson, said that apart from the 10% scholarship, not even 1% can be given. Subas Neupane, president of National Pabson, claimed that giving scholarships to 15 percent of students would be unfair to the remaining 85 percent. He said that although the private sector contributed 34 percent to school education, it was devalued.
