LATITPUR: Jailbirds languishing in prisons across the country have been found with psychiatric problems in different forms. Mental Hospital located at Lagankhel said that the number of jailbirds visiting the hospital for treatment from Nakhkhu Prison have psychiatric problems and the number of patients is growing.
Ananta Adhikari, chief psychiatric consultant of the hospital, said the jailbirds are approaching the hospital for treatment almost every day.
The jailbirds from the prisons across the country have been shifted to Nakhkhu Jail once they developed psychiatric problems.
Daily 10-15 inmates are coming to the Out Patient Department while three to five are found to be admitted at Internal Department of the hospital. “The trend of inmates being transferred to the central jail has increased lately with the construction of a special hospital targeting jailbirds of Nakhkhu prison gaining pace”.
According to Adhikari, the patients with depression hit the highest number visiting the hospital from prison.
Some have been found with mild psychiatric problem while some others are diagnosed with acute types, he added.
Total 150 to 200 patients with psychiatric problems are coming to the OPD for treatment. The 50 beds of the hospital are always occupied by the patients, the hospital sources said.
KATHMANDU: An unidentified gang has torched a truck at Thaha Municipality-4 in Makwanpur district on early Thursday.
According to police, the group intercepted the truck, Na 5 Kha 7411, in the jungle between Palung and Daman and set it on fire after dousing it in petrol.
Three people including driver were taken out of the truck before it was set ablaze, said police. The cargo truck was heading to Hetauda from Kathmandu.
No one has claimed the responsibility for the arson attack so far.
KATHMANDU: A nationwide strike called by Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand aka ‘Biplav’ has had minor impact in the Kathmandu Valley on Thursday.
Vehicles are plying the road as usual since early morning. Security has been tightened in view of the strike. Security personnel – Nepal Police and Armed Police – have been deployed at the major junctions of the Kathmandu Valley to preempt any untoward incidents.
However, the latest incidents of explosions and the government’s ban on the Biplav-led group have created some impact on schools. The school management has told the parents to send their children by observing the situation while some schools have given holiday.
“To foil the Biplav-called banda , security situation has been beefed up in the capital,” SSP Basanta Kumar Lama of Kathmandu Metropolitan Range Office, told Khabarhub.
Chand-led NCP has announced a nationwide strike in retaliation to the government’s ban on its activities today.
Kathmandu: Indian Embassy awarded 200 scholarships to Nepali students for the academic year 2018/2019. The scholarships recipients cover 36 undergraduate courses such as: MBBS, BDS, BE, BSc, BBA and B. Com among others and are from 50 districts of Nepal. The students make 45% girls and 8% differently-abled students, according to a press release by the embassy today.
The award known as the Golden Jubilee Scholarships, is presented every year. Under this scholarship scheme, an MBBS/BDS student receives NRs. 4000/- per month for five years, a BE student receives NRs. 4000/- per month for four years, and a student studying in other under-graduate courses receives NRs. 3000/- per month for three years. So far more than 2,350 Nepali students have been awarded the Golden Jubilee Scholarships from across the country.
Khaga Raj Baral, a secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology presented the certificate of merit to 200 students at a program today. Ambassador of India to Nepal, Manjeev Singh Puri congratulated the students and advised them to achieve personal and professional fulfillment contributing towards Nepal’s socio-economic development.
In 2002, the Government of India started the prestigious Golden Jubilee Scholarship Scheme to mark the completion of 50 years of India-Nepal Economic Cooperation. At the inception of this scheme, 50 meritorious Nepali students were awarded the scholarship. In the year 2007, the number of scholarships were increased to 100. Since the year 2012, the numbers of scholarships have been doubled to 200.
The Government of India provides a total of about 3000 scholarships in Medical, Science, Veterinary Sciences, Pharmacology, Dental science, Agriculture, Engineering, Arts, Commerce, Science, Computer Science, Nursing and many other disciplines to study at the universities and colleges in Nepal and in India. These Scholarships are part of India’s efforts to support human resources development in Nepal for the overall socio-economic development of Nepal and Nepali people.
KATHMANDU: Private schools need not fear a phase out as rumored.
Future of private schools is not endangered as the constitution has accepted the three-pillar economic policy envisioning a socialism-oriented nation, according to Krishna Bahadur Mahara, speaker of the House of Representatives.
However, he insisted that all sides should cooperate in the process of regulating private schools and in raising the quality of community schools. Mahara was speaking at the 14th national convention of the Private and Boarding Schools’ Organization of Nepal (PABSON) here today.
“Education and health should be the state’s responsibility but it is not possible to phase out the private schools in the near future. At present, the state should move towards prosperity by encouraging the private sector as well,” he said.
The speaker informed that he has urged the government to bring the Federal Education Act only upon consultation with stakeholders.
KATHMANDU: Nepal government has signed an agreement with eight labor destination countries even as it issues work permit to Nepali out migrant workers for as many as 110 countries.
It is supplying youths to 102 countries without signing labor agreement.
Signing labor pact is a must for ensuring labor rights, including insurance and social security of the Nepali migrant workers.
Nepal has signed a dual labor pact with a total eight countries including Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan, South Korea, Japan, Israel and Malaysia in the past 14 years, according to the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security. The first labor agreement was signed with Qatar in 2005.
“From now on, Nepal government is planning to supply Nepali workers to destination countries only after signing or renewing the pact,” said Dr. Ram Prasad Ghimire, joint secretary and chief at the Department of Foreign Employment.
Ghimire further said the government has formed a five-member panel to this effect and is making preparations to sign or renew labor pact with the labor destinations in line with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Nepal Labor Law Act, 2017.
He further said, “Free visa and free ticket should be prioritized while renewing and signing the labor agreement.”
Similarly, the ministry is also serious about expenses incurred in supplying migrant workers, their security, pay perks and health facilities, he added.
Some countries are shying away from signing a labor pact with Nepal citing that Nepali workers lack required skills and qualification, according to a source at the department.
While Nepal had signed the first labor deal with Qatar, the latest deal was sealed with Malaysia on October 29, 2018. Similarly, Nepal government had signed agreement with South Korea and the UAE in 2007.
Similarly, Nepal government signed labor agreement with Bahrain and Japan in 2008, with Israel in 2015, with Jordan in 2017 and with Malaysia in 2018.
Despite having signed the labor agreement with three countries – Japan, Israel and Malaysia – Nepal has not yet supplied Nepali workers to these countries in line with the pact.
Malaysia has stopped receiving Nepali workers for the past nine months. The agreement needs to be renewed within three to five years as per the labor agreement.
The process of renewing labor agreement with Qatar, Japan and the UAE has reached the final phase, according to the ministry.
Nepal government has called on all the employment providing countries to sign and renew the labor agreement stating that that would supply Nepali workers to destination countries only after the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Qatar, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and Jordan are the major labor destinations, absorbing around 80 percent of the Nepali migrant workers as per the statistics maintained by the ministry.
SALYAN: Two people died in a tractor mishap in Salyan las. The incident took place when the ill-fated tractor (Ra 1 Ta 1151) en route to Lanitbazaar from Sharada municipality-2, Shreenagar met with the accident.
Tractor driver Krishna Dangi, 24, a local of Sharada municipality-12, Chisapai and thirteen-year-old Amar Budhathoki died in the accident, confirmed the District Police Office, Salyan.
Both sustained critical injuries in the accident and later died in the district hospital during treatment, police informed. The tractor had plunged into the river. Further investigation into the accident is underway, police informed.
KATHMANDU: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Ishwor Pokharel is serving a cake to the Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of National Security Council, at Putali Garden, Singha Durbar.
Photo: RSS
Photo:RSS
MUGLING: Majority of the Chepang students enrolled at a primary school at Icchakamana Rural Municipality in Chitwan do not attend their school regularly in lack of stationery materials. Students at the School in remote area are mostly from the Chepang community. Shree Surya Jyoti Primary School has as many as 35 students but only 20 of them are regular.
School Principal, Shakila Joshi shared that the Chepang students do not attend the school regularly. Those who attend the school do not bring stationery materials such as books and note books with them. The school faces resource crunch to meet the needs of the students.
Poor number of students has affected teaching and learning activities. Given its remoteness representatives from social organizations shy away from visiting it. Thus the school is deprived of additional supports.
Another school in Mayataar, at ward no 2 of the Rural Municipality also shares the same fate. Majority of its students are also deprived of note books, books and pencils. Principal, Padam Bahadur Chepang informed that of the 173 students, 75 percent of them are from Chepang community.
Likewise, Shree National Primary School at ward no 6 has a total of 125 students – from Gharti and Chepang communities. Many students here too attend the schools sans stationary materials and text books.
School’s Assistant, Krishna Bahadur Gharti explained that majority of the Chepang and Gharti students come from very impoverished families. Beside poverty, lack of awareness among the parents is also attributed for not prodding their children to send to school regularly.
National Primary School Principal, Bhawana Khaniya reasoned that the students do not attend the school that due to financial constraints. Absence of students is utterly felt especially in the winter. The school is unable to attract students for its failure to provide warm clothes and snacks to the needy students.
Deepak Sigdel, an education officer at Icchakamana Rural Municipality admitted that attracting students to school from Chepang community is challenging. He underscored that the government needs to continue its meal program at such schools to attract and retain students. Government earlier had been providing mid-day meal to primary level students of community schools.