Student unions, however, maintained that they would press the government to initiate a process of strengthening community-based +2 schools than obstruct TU´s move of phasing out PCL. [break]
“We are not pressing TU to continue with PCL,” said Ram Kumari Jhakri, president of All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU). “However, the government should strengthen community-based +2 schools before phasing out PCL so that poor students may not be deprived of higher education.”
As part of their one-week-long protest, student unions will padlock offices of TU and Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) on July 18. They will also stage demonstrations and sit-ins in front of the Ministry of Education (MoE) on July 19 and 20.
However, Nepal Students Union (NSU), ANNFSU and Nepal Revolutionary Students´ Union (NRSU), student wings of the Nepali Congress (NC), the CPN (UML) and the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP), have collectively written a note of dissent against the decision to padlock TU and HSEB offices.
UCPN (Maoist)-affiliated All Nepal National Independent Students´ Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) is spearheading the protests.
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