Kathmandu, April 21: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called on the agitating teachers to immediately sit for talks and return to school since the State shall address their demands that the country’s coffers can afford and that are feasible.
Inaugurating the 11th National Conference of the Progressive Professors’ Organization, Nepal in Kirtipur today, PM Oli said that the present government is democratic and not oppressive; therefore, the legitimate demands of the professional sector would be addressed including protecting the rights of trade unions.
“The School Education Bill is under consideration of a parliamentary committee. So many teachers need not hit the street to bring the Act. The school enrollment campaign has already begun. Please go to school and carry out student enrollment. Check the answer sheet of SEE. Don’t be offended by my statement that 52 per cent students have been made to fail in SEE. Work for quality education,” PM Oli said.
Stating that the students and parents have suffered due to the teachers’ movement and it was also not benefiting the teachers as well, he urged the agitating teachers to immediately sit for talks and end their movement.
“This is also not the right time for you to agitate when regressive elements are on the rise,” PM Oli cautioned.
The Prime Minister urged the professors to become intellectually proactive for nation’s prosperity and progress.
Prime Minister Oli, who is also the chairman of the ruling CPN (UML), said the professors should be intellectually active against regressive, ultra-left and the distorted and disharmonious tendencies.
He called upon the people to be aware of the regressive, ultra-left, distorted and anomalous tendencies manifesting in the country and to work for the formulation of ideas to protect the existing federal democratic republic from their respective field.
The conscious and aware community like teachers is supposed to find out difference between democracy and anarchy, the Prime Minister said, adding that a citizen is not expected to remain neutral in regard of shaping the future of the society. The democracy should be practiced for producing skilled human resources.
According to him, producing healthy, educated and skilled citizens should be the priority of teachers so as the nation could be further developed.
Urging teachers to think about effective ways for bringing every citizen to the access to education and guaranteeing quality education, he said the establishment of the organisation was meant for the rights of teachers. He urged teachers for plying a crucial role for improvement of education sector in the days to come.
