Kathmandu, June 7: Minister for Sports and Education Amod Prasad Upadhyaya has said that the government will remain active in attaining maximum benefit from the investment made in the educational sector.

At an interaction programme on making the education community oriented organised here today, chief guest minister Upadhyaya said that it was necessary to make fifty per cent of the population literate and raise the standard of education at the same time.

Stating that in the one hand there was talk of handing over the education to the civic society while on the other, matters pertaining to responsibility of the government has also been raised, he said that there was thinking of handing over the responsibility of monitoring and evaluating educational works to the community of local guardians.

Vice-chancellor of Kathmandu University Dr. Suresh Raj Sharma said the government had made more investment in the educational sector but attention had not been given to skill oriented education. Decentralisation and monitoring was necessary in education sector, he added.

Dr. Tirtha Raj Khaniya, Dr. Krishna Bhatta Chand, Dr. Man Prasad Wagle and Dr. Hridaya Ratna Bajracharya also expressed their views at the programme hosted by educational journalists group.

A report concerning the situation of primary education and training of primary school teachers in Nepal prepared by action aid Nepal was made public on the occasion.