The administrators have announced a protest against the provision of making private schools non-profit and giving full scholarships.
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Expressing dissatisfaction with the school education bill, Pabson and National Pabson, the association of private school operators, have announced a protest on Wednesday. Pabson President Krishna Prasad Adhikari and National Pabson President Subhash Neupane, who have been protesting since Thursday, stated in the statement.
They said that the teachers will encircle the parliament building from the demonstration in Maitighar Mandal, Chakrapath. Neupane said that a decisive protest will be held from August 8.
Private school administrators have been protesting against the system of gradually making private schools non-profit and giving full scholarships to students. The administrators had been warning that they would go on strike if the school education bill was not amended. The Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives has agreed that private schools will gradually become non-profit and private schools will give 10 to 15 percent full scholarships.
Full scholarship is defined as the fees charged and provided by the school, including tuition, examinations, textbooks, educational materials, clothing, transportation and residential facilities (if available at the school). The issue of how many students will be provided with residential facilities is yet to be decided.
Education Minister Raghuji Pant has proposed that 2.50 percent of the students should be given housing facilities to the private schools that operate hostels, while the MPs have been of the opinion that they should be given to 10 percent. 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 over the years. After the committee's secretariat has finished writing the report on the bill, it has been made available to the parliamentarians for study. Pabson, National Pabson has put forward a demand that the word "full scholarship" should be removed, provision of clothes, stationery, educational materials, lunch should be canceled from full scholarship.
According to the Companies Act, the provision that the registered and operating schools should be made non-profit should be removed, and the scholarship rights should be given to the school instead of the local level. There is a provision in the bill that the details of providing scholarships must be submitted to the local level and students must be selected through competition.
