The strike has affected hundreds of thousands of students in some 1,500 schools in the capital.
ISTU chairman Hom Kumar Thapa said the strike was enforced to draw government’s attention towards enforcement of agreements signed on April 2, 2007 and recommendations submitted by the two bodies last year for implementing the agreements.
“Back then, the government had agreed on our demands that temporary teachers be given permanent status, employees of private schools receive benefits comparable to those in public schools and the Company Act be made inapplicable in the education sector,” Thapa told myrepublica.com.
Though Thapa said the strike was enforced in Kathmandu only, our correspondent from Chitwan said schools in the district have also remained closed.
Agitating teachers affiliated to the two groups organized a demonstration in Shantibatika and marched to the Ministry of Education where they submitted a memorandum to Education Secretary Ram Swarup Sinha.
Sinha assured that the demands would be met as soon as the political vacuum in the ministry is over, said Thapa.
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