PABSON urges PM to hold talks with rebel students

June 6, 2004
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KATHMANDU:  A delegation of the Private and Boarding Schools Organization of Nepal (PABSON) met Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and asked him to hold talks with the All Nepal Independent Students Union-Revolutionary to end the educational strikes.

PABSON representatives told media persons after the meeting that they have asked the PM to be attentive to the demands of the rebel students so that class can be resumed. They also sought his attention over the growing insecurity facing privately run schools.

“We have demanded that schools be declared zones of peace and the problems be settled at the earliest. The prime minister has given his words that he would try to resolve the problem through negotiations,” said PABSON chairman Umesh Shrestha.

PABSON members informed that the PM said that the demands of the rebel students were by and large political, and for that matter, hard to meet instantly. He however assured that the problem would be better dealt when there is a full-fledged Council of Ministers, probably within a few days.

Meanwhile, hundreds of schools across the country remained shut for the third consecutive day today to the strikes imposed by the ANNISU-R.

The ANNISU-R declared indefinite strikes in all public and private schools from Sunday demanding that the government remove the terrorist tag labeled on the organization and free its arrested leaders. The organization has also demanded massive cuts in fees charged by private schools.