Education Bill: Committee meeting not yet held, Minister Pant in consultation with top leaders

Ashad 16, 2082

Kantipur Reporter

Education Bill: Committee meeting not yet held, Minister Pant in consultation with top leaders

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The meeting of the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives, which was scheduled to meet at 9 am today to reach an agreement on the school education bill, has not been held yet.

In the bill, there is a provision to make temporary, contract and relief teachers 60 percent from internal and 40 percent from open. But the Nepal Teachers' Federation has been maintaining a position that 75 percent of the internal and 25 percent of the open should be permanent. There is also a disagreement among teachers on the provision of teacher promotion .

After the teachers remained at their stand, a discussion was held in the Ministry of Education in the afternoon between the Minister of Education Raghuji Pant and the representatives of the federation. After failing to reach an agreement, the representatives including General Secretary of the Federation Tula Bahadur Thapa left the ministry. Ammar Bahadur Thapa, chairman of the

committee, said that if Minister Pant came to the meeting, the meeting would be postponed indefinitely.

Now Minister Pant is meeting and consulting with the top leaders of the ruling political party.

Kantipur

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