Protocol of university, school teachers to be specified: Koirala

January 29, 2001
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Kathmandu, Jan. 29: Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has said that university teachers have an important role to play in preventing the country from moving along the wrong direction and propelling it towards development.

Prime Minister Koirala made this remark while inaugurating the guest house of the Nepal University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) and unveiling the statue of ex-president of NUTA Prof. B. C. Malla at the premises of the guest house at Kirtipur today.

Stating that university and school teachers have made significant contributions to the establishment of democracy in the country, he said quality education is the need of the day.

The Prime Minister disclosed that a separate committee is being considered to specify a protocol of university and school teachers.

He also gave assurances that additional grants will be provided to campuses run by the private sector.

Mr Koirala also asked all teachers to emulate the contributions of the late Prof. B.C. Malla in educational development and protection of democracy in the country.

Minister for Education and Sports Amod Prasad Upadhyaya stressed the need to promote technical and vocational education so as to resolve the existing unemployment problem.

Amendments to the education act is being considered to encourage people’s participation in educational development, he said.

On the one hand 30 per cent of the children in the country are out of school and 95 per cent of the people are deprived of higher education, while on the other the country is faced with the challenge of providing quality education.

The government is considering setting up a students loan fund with the objective of bringing higher education within the reach of the students from poor economic background, Minister Upadhyaya said.

Minister of State for Local Development Suresh Malla spoke about the significant role played by university and school teachers in the protection and consolidation of democracy.

Vice-chancellor of Tribhuvan University Navin Prakash Jung Shaha was of the view that university teachers have an important role to play in educational development and stabilizing democracy in the country.

He also spoke of the need for all university teachers to imbibe the ideals of the late Prof. B. C. Malla and give continuity to the works he had started.

From the chair, NUTA president Bhimsen Das Pradhan stressed the need to construct a university teachers residential quarters and a statue of the first vice-chancellor of Tribhuvan University Subarna Shumshere.

Ex-presidents of NUTA Dr Ramman Shrestha, Prof. Keshavananda Giri, Prof. Suprabha Ghimire, Prof. Kapil Shrestha and general secretary Gunanidhi Neupane highlighted the contributions of the late Prof. B.C. Malla and various problems of university teachers.

The 18-room NUTA guest house for which Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala had laid the foundation stone in 2049 B.S. has been constructed with the grant assistance of His Majesty’s Government and Tribhuvan University.

University teachers from outside Kathmandu Valley can stay at the guest house while in the capital.