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Kathmandu,Saturday January 08, 2000 Paush 24th, 2056.
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Schools
facing problem
-By a
Post Reporter
NUWAKOT, Jan 7 - Most
of the secondary and higher secondary schools of Nuwakot district have
opened after the revolutionary students supporting the Maoists locked
the schools demanding that they should not collect fees beyond what
the government has approved and to return the fees already collected
by them.
The schools opened
after the revolutionary students threatened the headmasters at night.
The headmasters relented in an attempt to save their life.
However, it is found
that the schools are facing various problems and are finding it
difficult to function smoothly. On the one hand, the government has
not provided teachers according to the quota of every school and on
the other, they are not allowed to charge fees to the students which
they need to pay for the teachers hired by them from their own
resources.
Headmaster of
Chhetrapal secondary school at Chaughada said the school had been
charging fees to construct additional building for the last two years
and the building has been already constructed by using the money. Even
when this information was given to the revolutionary students they
asked him to return the money and he had to spend his personal
property for the school.
Following the problems
faced by schools in smooth operation, an all-party meeting decided to
hold parents’ day programmes and also send a delegation to the
Ministry of Education to apprise the situation and find a long-term
solution to the problem.
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