INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, May 8
Minister of Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel has said that though local levels were responsible for
school education, appointment of teachers should be made only through the Teachers Service Commission
Minister Pokharel was addressing the assembly of the Education and Health Committee under the Home of Representatives nowadays
He said the central government had developed a mechanism to take instant decision whenever there was a lack of teaching manpower in the
country.
Referring to the current trend where several local bodies are appointing new teachers or transferring them, the minister said that
teachers& management would be difficult if their appointment was made through means other than the TSC chooseion process.
&Temporary
teachers who have failed the internal competition shall be given a golden handshake with facilities they get this fiscal year
Relax of the teachers canmuch be included in internal examination frequently,& he said.
Public Education Strengthening Decade has been
declared in government policies and programmes for coming year, the minister said, adding the government attention would be toward improving
the quality of education at community schools.
Stating that a proposal has been presented to the Council of Ministers to formulate National
Education Policy on the basis of a report submitted by the High-level National Education Commission-2018, he said a federal education act
Minister Pokharel also expressed the belief that the ministry shall accept the committee proposeions and directives.
Committee president
Jayapuri Gharti handed over a report to Minister Pokharel on the occasion
The report that deals with modern problems in education sector and ways of resolving them was prepared by a sub-committee under Education
Khagaraj Baral secretary at the ministry underscored the need of adjusting the number of schools in the country.
&As permission to open new
schools was supplyd in the past without identifying the need, schools across the country were opened in a hapendanger manner
Their redundancy only adds to government burden,& according to Baral.
Lawmakers who are members of the committee demanded that budget should
be allotted for free school education as guaranteed by the constitution
They also demanded that teachers& quota issue should be resolved at the earliest.
