No Education
The cover story “Education Under Lock and Key” (SPOTLIGHT May 25) has clearly pointed out the implications of strike in a sensitive sector like education. No words can be enough to criticize such behavior by responsible people like teachers. They are incurring huge damage on the education sector. Only future generation will aptly evaluate their activities and judge them accordingly. For the time being, we have no option but to grin and bear it.
Lata Sharma
Bageshwori
Destructive Minds
The country is reeling under anarchy. The anarchists are in the forefront everywhere. Go out to the street, you will find anarchists of every shade and color trying to impose blockades and bandhs at the drop of the hat (“Education Under Lock and Key” SPOTLIGHT May 25). In industries, there are other kinds of anarchists. And even in education sector, there are so many anarchists in the guise of revolutionaries. The agitating teachers have demanded that pay-scale should be equal in public and private schools. This is high absurd demand. How can private and public sector’s pay scale be equal? Will they now demand equal pay scale in government banks and private banks? In pursuing populist policies, they have embraced highly destructive path.
Dinesh Thapa
Balkhu
Criminalize Strikes
It is high time to criminalize strike in sectors like education (“Education Under Lock and Key” SPOTLIGHT May 25). In pressuring to fulfill demands of few lakhs teachers, no one can play with the future of the nation, no one can play with the future of 8 million children, no one can play with the rights of children. If the teachers do not understand the noble profession they are engaged in, they should leave the profession altogether and join some trade union. Teachers should be the noblest of role models in any society. They must be harbingers of change. They cannot be roadblocks.
Kamal Adhikari
New Baneshwore
Who Is In Charge?
The pathetic state of affairs compels one to wonder who actually is in charge of this country (Melamchi: Still Nowhere, SPOTLIGHT May18). The Prime Minister is reported to be concerned about Melamchi project. The Finance Minister has publicly stated that government does not want to jeopardize its relations with the Asian Development Bank in the name of Melamchi. But the Minister for Works and Physical Planning Hisila Yami stubbornly refuses to implement what has been already agreed upon and is jeopardizing whole Melamchi project. By refusing to implement agreement to let a British company take over the management of valley water system, Yami has reasoned that she cannot allow a discredited company. By that logic, the Maoist ministers should immediately vacate their posts because once upon a time PM Koirala – their leader in the cabinet – was also discredited. The 1950 Treaty with India has been discredited adequately enough. Why should she honor it now? Why should they continue to honor the 12-point agreement? Honoring agreements – that too reached with foreign sovereigns and foreign donors – must be sacrosanct. You cannot go about dishonoring pacts and understandings with foreign donors like you are doing with the ones reached with seven political parties or the people of Nepal.
Binaya Sharma
Kaldhara
Shameful Treatment
What a shameful and pathetic way to treat the war heroes like Tul Bahadur Pun VC who was denied access to UK for the better treatment who sacrificed the cream part of his life for the vested interest of the 'British Empire'. British government used the Gurkhas like Tul Bahadur Pun VC and others during the two bloody wars and in the cold wars and now wants to dump them like garbage. God help and guide the United Kingdom government to end the 200 years of racial discrimination and human rights violations against the Gurkhas and their families from Nepal.
Yam Gurung (rtd)
British army
Watford
WD18 0AU, UK
