Participants discuss gender equality, justice in Biratnagar

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Biratnagar, Aug. 13: Forum for Protection of Public Interest organized an interaction programme on "Gender Equality and Justice" on the promotion of gender equality in the judicial process and national and international aspect of women’s human rights.

The programme, participated in by twenty-four judges and registrar, included Chief Justice Kedar Nath Upadhyay, Judges Kedar Prasad Giri, Laxman Prasad Aryal and former speaker of House of Representatives Daman Nath Dhungana as the resource persons.

The interaction programme passed a 13-point resolution related to women’s human rights which include education curriculum activities, gender equality and substantive equality, formulation of a national level programme for self-reliance and empowerment of women.

32 pickpockets arrested in Biratnagar

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

Biratnagar, Aug. 13: Police have arrested 32 pickpockets in a single day in Biratnagar. According to Sub-Inspector of the Morang district police office Rajan Bhetwal those pickpockets were indulged in picking the pockets and snatching the chains of the devotees participating in the procession of Krishnajanmasthami.

Bhetwal said that their arrest was possible because of the massive police mobilization at the procession.

He said the police have also arrested youths for teasing and misbehaving girls and women.

The district police office had even informed through miking for two days not to come to the procession wearing ornaments, still many women devotees were donned with golden ornaments. Every year the Krishnajanasthami festival and procession is participated by tens of thousands of people.

Action started on some teachers, headmasters

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

Biratnagar, Aug. 13: The Morang district education office has started taking action against the concerned headmasters and teachers as it has found some persons working in place of the teachers in some schools in the outlying and hilly parts of the district.

According to Durga Khatiwada, Supervisor of the district education office, three persons were found teaching at Panchayat Higher Secondary School, Pathari, and Sunpakuwa Secondary School, Mangalbare, in place of Jiban Bista, and Laxmi Prasad Sapkota and Om Kafle respectively.

The teachers—Bista, Sapkota and Kafle—were on leave and the other persons were working as teachers in the schools.

"The teachers were on leave without informing the district education office and the schools have allowed local unemployed ones to work as teachers and provided all the facilities the teachers used to get," Khatiwada informed.

He further said that the education office has stopped sending the salary and allowances to the concerned headmasters and teachers as part of departmental action.

It is said that the concerned headmasters and the teachers allowed the local unemployed to teach in the schools by giving some money from the salaries the teachers used to get. This practice has been here for many years and they have been going on unhindered, as there was hardly any supervision from the district education office.

"But now the schools are supervised frequently. So, this type of tendency has decreased now," Khatiwada says.