The government and the Nepal Teachers' Federation have reached an agreement. An agreement was reached on the outline of a possible agreement with the teachers who have been protesting in Kathmandu for 28 days on Tuesday night at the Ministry of Education.

A teacher who participated in the talks said that the government will address some of the demands by deciding on the cabinet, commit to quickly finalize the school education bill pending in the parliament's education and health committee, and the teachers will suspend the street protest. 

Teachers have proposed 9 points of demand that should be decided by the Cabinet, while the Ministry of Education has proposed 7 points. An official of the ministry said that the talks were focused on these issues.

Some decisions are made by the Council of Ministers so that the demands of the teachers are addressed. There has been talk about the commitment to pass the school education bill from the parliament and the political level. After that, there was talk of suspending the protest and going back to school," said the official. According to the agreement, the Ministry of Education will prepare a proposal for the decision to be made by the Council of Ministers and submit it.  On behalf of the government, education minister Raghuji Pant along with finance minister Bishnu Paudel, home minister Ramesh Ulak, education secretary Deepak Kafle and others participated. On behalf of the federation, president Laxmikishore Subedi, co-president Nanumaya Parajuli, general secretary Tula Bahadur Thapa and others participated.

Parajuli responded that there was a discussion about the teachers' demand that a decision should be made by the Cabinet. "The movement will take a different form after the decision on the 9-point proposal of the teachers' federation comes from the cabinet with a date line to issue the law," she said. He said that if there is an agreement on the subject in the talks, the teacher will return to the classroom and participate in educational activities including exams. In the

talks, Finance Minister Paudel promised to ensure the financial burden of the state to meet the demands of the teachers, while the Home Minister Akbar explained about the preparation of the ruling party to issue the law, the teacher leaders said. In the decision to be made by the Cabinet, it is proposed to provide funds for sick leave to temporary and relief teachers, arrange treatment for school employees including teachers in civil hospitals, provide minimum wages to child teachers, adjust the grade of teachers, provide remote/local allowances to relief teachers, join the social security fund, and set the order of dignity of teachers.

The Ministry of Education estimates that about 8 billion budget will be needed for this. Although the proposal was advanced by the former Education Minister Vidya Bhattarai, it was blocked from being approved by the Cabinet as the Ministry of Finance did not agree. Bhattarai resigned due to the non-cooperation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Finance Minister Paudel.

On Monday, there was also a discussion between the Education Minister Pant and the representatives of the Teachers Federation. After the talks were positive, they again sat for talks on Tuesday. Before the talks, the leaders of the ruling party Congress-UML discussed the demands of the teachers and how to address them with the officials of the teachers' federation. Both the government and the protesting parties have said that the agreement will be reached within 1/2 day. Before the

talks, the federation decided to hold a meeting and take the talks and the movement together. It is mentioned in the decision of the Federation that the form of the movement will be determined after the confirmation of the Education Act, which will be fulfilled by the decision of the Council of Ministers.