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KATHMANDU, FEB 01 -

The Temporary Teachers’ Union (TTU) staged a sit-in programme in front of District Education Offices across the country on Monday. The protest organised to exert pressure on the government for their permanent appointment will continue till Friday.

TTU, an umbrella body of temporary teachers, has been holding out various forms of protest after the government in the first week of January endorsed two regulations. The union is against the provisions of the Education Regulation (sixth amendment) and Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) Regulation (fifth amendment) which envision an open competition for filling teacher vacancies in public schools.

As per the new law, the government will announce a free competition to fill permanent posts from the primary to the secondary level that have remained vacant for more than a decade.

The union has been demanding two types of competition—internal and open — to select candidates for permanent appointment. Temporary teachers have been urging for separate competition within themselves and appointment to permanent posts.

“Teachers working for decades cannot compete with the new generation and it would also not be logical,” said union President Birendra Kunwar.

He said the organisation will intensify the protest programme until the agreement between the union and eight political parties signed on Nov. 28, 2006 is implemented. In the agreement, the political parties had agreed to announce a separate competition for temporary teachers.However, Janardan Nepal Spokesperson at Ministry of Education (MoE), said that ministry has drafted a new Education Act aiming to resolve the problem. “The draft is ready and will be submitted in the cabinet after solving a few technical problems,” Nepal said.

Though around 23,000 posts are vacant, the Teachers’ Service Commission is planning to announce 12,000 vacancies this year.

The ministry is working to get rid of all temporary teachers by 2014 if they fail the selection process. It has not announced a teacher selection competition since

1999, creating an acute shortage of competent teachers in public schools across the country.

Posted on: 2011-02-01 08:58

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