Janapakshiya Student Union Submits 15-Point Memorandum
Janapakshiya Student Union, Nepal has submitted a memorandum to the Private and Residential Schools Organization Nepal, Central Executive Committee, presenting 15 demands.
On 2082 Poush 4, Friday, a team led by Janapakshiya Student Union, Nepal President Sunita Budhathoki submitted the memorandum to the organization.
The memorandum was submitted with 15 demands, including an immediate 50 percent reduction in the excessively high fees being charged by private schools.
The 15-point demands are as follows
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Make arrangements so that Nepali students, workers, and Nepali citizens living abroad can vote in this election.
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Fully implement free education up to the secondary level as provided in the Constitution.
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Ensure teaching and learning in English medium in all government schools.
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Provide a monthly allowance of NPR 500 to students studying up to Class 12.
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Create an environment for all interested students studying at college level to become self-employed alongside their studies, by providing a concessional loan facility up to a minimum of NPR 1,000,000 to each person with the government as guarantor.
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Immediately reduce by 50 percent the excessive fees charged by private schools.
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Arrange free internet service for all students.
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Make the income and expenditure of schools and educational institutions fully transparent.
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Implement a practical, skill-based, and production-oriented education system.
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Arrange a student ration card.
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End the privatization and commercialization of education.
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Ensure effective implementation of technical education at all levels.
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Implement an ethical, scientific, and patriotic education policy.
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Set the minimum salary of teachers and staff teaching in private schools at the level equal to that of government schools.
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Reduce customs duties by at least 50 percent on vehicles and other educational materials imported for school and college purposes.
It is stated in the memorandum that the above demands are not only the current needs of students, but are also directly linked to the country’s long-term socio-economic transformation.
“The lifeline of democracy is the right to vote. Free education is the implementation of the current Constitution. Embracing these democratic constitutional values, we believe that the government and all concerned bodies will take the demands mentioned in this memorandum seriously and take concrete steps toward solutions through immediate dialogue and agreement,” the memorandum states.
A warning was also issued that if the government and all concerned bodies do not take concrete steps to address the legitimate and constitutionally guaranteed demands in time, a Kathmandu Valley-wide educational strike will be carried out on Poush 7.
The memorandum was also sent as a copy to the Office of the President, the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singha Durbar, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Election Commission, the National Private and Residential Schools Association Nepal, and the Higher Education Institutions and Secondary Schools Association Nepal.
