The federal government's decision to grant two public holidays on Saturday and Sunday has not been implemented uniformly across municipalities, resulting in different daily lives for family members in the same profession.
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–Bidwata Pokharel, a student of Bhanujan Secondary School, grade 9, went to Phungling Bazaar to spend the day with her father Rajkumar on Saturday. Her father Rajkumar, who came home on Friday evening, had asked Vidwata how her studies were going after she had eaten and done some household chores on Saturday morning. She told her the schedule of classes to be held from Monday to Friday. Rajkumar, a teacher at Saraswati Secondary School in Hangpang, Athraitribeni Rural Municipality-3, left for school on Sunday morning. Vidwata spent the day at home with her mother.
–Sugrima Acharya of Phungling Municipality-5 does her homework with her two sisters Lina and Lisa every morning from Monday to Friday. The sisters have lunch together at around 8:30. Then Sugrima walks to school. The sisters ride their father Subash's motorcycle to school. Everyone gets together on Saturday. The schedule for Sunday has changed. Lina and Lisa, who study at the private school Sorathi Basic, go to school. Sugrima stays at home all day. Sugrima is in grade 8 at the community school Bhanujan Secondary School.
– Tawla Sherpa and Raju Shrestha, who live in Dobhan Bazaar, at the junction of Meringden, Aathrai and Tribeni, were busy with household chores all day on Sunday. Usha Bhattarai and Reshma Magar, both from the same settlement, went to school and returned after studying. Tawla and Raju study at Birendra Secondary School in Devlinge, Phungling Municipality-2, while Usha and Reshma are studying at Change Secondary School.
– Tanka Khawas of Medibung, Phungling Municipality-3, went to Dobhan Bazaar on Friday evening and returned home with his wife Sita. On Saturday, the family members got together and spent the day doing household chores. On Sunday morning, they reached Aathrai Tribeni Rural Municipality-4 Change to drop Sita off and returned in the afternoon. Until the new academic session, Tanka would drop his wife (Sita) off at school and then return at 10 am to drop him off at school. Sita is a teacher at Chhatedhunga Secondary School Change and Tanka is a teacher at Mewaraja Basic School Bahanande.
The federal government's decision to give two public holidays on Saturday and Sunday, citing fuel shortages due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, has not been fully implemented in the municipalities, and the daily lives of family members in the same profession have also become different.
Some teachers from the same household like Tanka and Sita, who work in the same position, get two days off a week and some only get one day off. Some students from the same household like Tawla, Raju, Usa, Reshma are attending school six days a week, while others have to go to school only five days a week. The daily lives of sisters like Sugrima, Lina, and Lisa in the same household have also become similar. The academic calendars of father and daughter like Rajkumar, who teaches at the secondary level, and Vidwita, who studies at the same level, have also become separate.
Municipalities in the district, which has nine local levels, have their own schedules, from educational institutions to government offices. Educational institutions in the same municipality are also operating on different schedules. Community schools in Phungling Municipality are closed on Sundays, while classes are held in institutional schools on Sundays.
Phungling Mayor Amir Maden says that the decisions and rules made by the federal government should be implemented. ‘If the local level does not accept the decisions made by the federal government and the provincial government, and the requests made by the local level are not accepted by the federal government and the provincial government, how will it work?’ Maden said, ‘That is why I have said to do as the government says.’
While Mayor Maden was saying this, private schools in the municipality have not accepted . Private schools that opened sporadically last Sunday have almost all opened this week . Mayor Rai said that he would understand why classes are being held in institutional schools on Sundays as well
Aathrai Tribeni, Faktanglung Rural Municipality had initially agreed to the federal government's decision to grant two days off . Aathrai Tribeni had implemented the decision to operate educational institutions according to the old academic session by getting a decision from the executive committee Other rural municipalities, including Faktanglung, are conducting admission campaigns and teaching according to the schedule of the previous year's academic session
Deepak Dhital of Dobhan says that parents and service recipients are also confused due to the lack of uniformity in the operating hours of all offices in a district ‘Some students in the same class go to school 6 days a week, while others study only 5 days. There is a concern about their academic level,’ said Deepak. ‘When the local level raises the question that the educational course cannot be completed by spending only 5 days, the government and the Education Minister do not give a clear answer.’
Chhatrapati Pyakurel, the outgoing mayor of Phungling Municipality, said that there is a need for a uniform policy in schools. ‘Earlier, there was a difference only in private and community schools. Now, even in the same school, two different policies are not good,’ he said.
Since there are more local levels that open on Sundays than on Sundays, it would be better for the District Coordination Committee to play a role in ensuring uniformity at least in the district, says retired teacher Dilli Raman Baral. ‘If possible, a uniform schedule is better across the country. In a country with geographical difficulties like ours, at least there must be uniformity within the district, if not within the municipality,’ he said.
