Permanent status: Teachers knock parties’ doors
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KATHMANDU, MAY 16 -
Agitating temporary school teachers on Sunday staged a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the major three political parties—UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and UML.
The temporary teachers have been striking for the last four months under the banner of Temporary Teachers Struggle Committee (TTSC) demanding permanent status through an internal selection process.
Though the Ministry of Education (MoE) on Friday had proposed the Cabinet for the eighth amendment to the Education Act-1971 to pave the way for the internal competition for permanent posting, TTSC has not given up its protest saying that the proposal came without their consensus.
The amendment bill will be forwarded to the parliament after Cabinet’s approval and Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will be allowed to open a competition to fill the vacant posts of 23,361 from primary to secondary level once it gets the parliament endorsement.
According to Education Minister Ganga Lal Tuladhar, the amendment will resolve the problem. “The long problem of teachers management will come to an end after its implementation,” Tuladhar told the Post. The bill envisions both open and internal competition, in which 12,096 vacancies will be filled through an open contest and the remaining 11,225 through internal competition.
Of the total vacancies, 15,207 are vacant in primary level, 4,624 in lower secondary and 3,530 in secondary level.
Posted on: 2011-05-16 09:11
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