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Siraha, December 21
National Private and Boarding School Association Nepal national Chairperson Sudipraj Sapkota said private schools were in no position to participate in the social security programme of the government.
&Don&t take this as a protest against the government policy, but I must say it clearly that private schools are not ready to participate in the social security programme brought by the government as yet,& said Sapkota while inaugurating N-PABSON Siraha 8th district conference here today.
The N-PABSON chair accused the government of trying to control private schools.
&If the latest rules brought by the government are anything to go by, it doesn&t take much to reckon that the rules have been brought to control private schools rather than to regulate them,& said Sapkota, arguing that schools were service-oriented organisations rather than for doing business.
&We are not like those businesspersons who produce different goods and commodities and sell them in the market for profit.
Ours is a service, and the government must treat us accordingly,& Sapkota said.
Sapkota asked the government to ensure that the academic session of all classes from Grade I to XII was the same since all these grades were kept under secondary education.
&The government has played with students& future by pushing back the academic session for Grade XI and XII by four months, which doesn&t add up any longer if the government kept Grade I to XII under secondary education,& he said.
Addressing the programme special guest, Province-2 Provincial Assembly member Dilip Sah stressed the need for all to abide by the rules.
N-PABSON General Secretary Shubhash Neupane described private and community schools as complementary to each other.
&We&re also ready to help in the upgradation of community schools and other sectors,& Neupane said.
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