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4,157 community schools selected for President's Reform Programme

A total of 4,157 community schools from across the country have been selected for the President's Educational Reform Programme. A meeting chaired by Education, Science and Technology Minister Devendra Paudel on Monday selected 4,157 schools, informed the Ministry on Tuesday.

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NC grieves of disparity against teachers in tourism allowance

KATHMANDU, June 14: Nepali Congress (NC) Central Education Department has drawn the attention of the government towards the discrimination between teachers and government employees when it comes to tourism allowance and other provisions announced in the budget speech on May 29. Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel, unveiling the budget for the fiscal year 2021/22, announced the government had decided to provide 10 days leave including travel expenses (tourism allowance) to the government employees, corporation’s employees and Academy’s employees among others from the upcoming fiscal year. The government also encouraged the private sector to follow the suit as a scheme to promote domestic tourism. Other schemes included group insurance worth Rs 1 million for the government employees and Rs 100,000 as the health insurance premium. NC central office secretary Dr Krishna Prasad Poudel, issuing a press statement here today, urged the government not to give encouragement to such discriminatory treatment. The government had appropriated a budget of Rs 180.4 billion out of the Rs 1.64 trillion budget for the education sector for the new fiscal year 2021/22. Although many new measures have been proposed under the President Education Reform Programme to enhance education quality and improve physical infrastructures in the community schools and university, no significant schemes such as motivational allowance, tourism allowance among others for the teachers and staffers in the community schools and in the universities have been announced. The government has, however, announced to raise the remuneration of the child development teachers and school staffs to minimum Rs 15,000. Poudel has also appealed to the government to put an end to such disparity and the trend to address demands through demonstration.

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Rs 180.04 billion allocated to education sector

KATHMANDU, May 29: The government has allocated Rs 180.04 billion budget for the education sector in the fiscal year 2021/22. The government has pledged to create a favorable environment to make skill-oriented and quality education considered a basis for human capital. Reading out the budget speech for the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Poudel announced a grant to the community schools based on their education results. For the development of community schools’ infrastructure, a total of Rs 10 billion has been allocated under the President Educational Reform Infrastructure Programme. Similarly, alternative learning would be implemented by developing infrastructures, students’ access to internet connectivity would be ensured and student’s admission rate would be made 100 per cent in the basic level of education. The students up to grade five would be provided with a day meal and teachers’ quota would be readjusted, the Finance Minister announced. Similarly, girl students would be provided with sanitary pads for free and each school would have a provision of a health worker. Three new universities would be established and up to Rs 500,000 concessional loan would be provided to the youths having minimum Bachelor’s level of education.

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