Mayor Sunil Prajapati said that the federal government has failed to implement its impractical decisions in educational institutions.
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All types of schools operating within Bhaktapur Municipality will continue to operate as before, contrary to the instructions of the federal government.
The mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality, Sunil Prajapati, said that the federal government has made impractical decisions in educational institutions and that they have not been implemented. He said that if an additional 52 days of leave are given in a year, the academic course will not be completed. Stating that the federal government should not interfere in the constitutional rights of the local government, he said that suggestions should be taken from the local government before taking any decision.
The meeting of the municipal executive held on April 3, 2083 decided to operate all community, institutional and Guthi schools according to the predetermined academic calendar. Now, classes will be conducted in educational institutions of Bhaktapur Municipality from April 6 and the holidays will be held only on Saturdays.
Earlier, the Education and Human Resource Development Center, Sanothimi Bhaktapur, through a letter dated Chaitra 26, had issued a circular to implement the arrangement to start the academic session of 2083 BS from Baisakh 15 and to give two public holidays on Saturday and Sunday as per the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal on Chaitra 22.
However, representatives of various schools within Bhaktapur city, Public School Collective Examination Committee, Joint Examination Committee, Basic School Committee and Institutional School Association Nepal (ISEN), Private and Residential School Organization Nepal (PABSON), National Private and Residential School Association Nepal (National PABSON), PETSAN, HISAN and others had concluded that giving two days off would reduce the number of teaching days and make it difficult to complete the credit hours determined by the Curriculum Development Center, and demanded that schools be operated on Sundays as well.
On this issue, the Bhaktapur District Parents' Association had also submitted a memorandum to the municipality demanding that schools be operated on Sundays and that the academic session should start from Baisakh 1.
