Kathmandu – The winter meeting of the Federal Parliament has been ruled without endorsing the key bills required to fully implement the Nepal Constitution.
At the Cabinet’s suggestion, President Ramchandra Paudel ended at midnight on Tuesday. According to the Secretariat of Parliament, the House of Representatives had 27 meetings, which lasted 118 hours and 21 minutes, and lasted for 61 days. The meeting begins on January 31.
During the meeting, 13 private bills were registered, but there were five bills, some of which were conducted in previous meetings, and the number of alternative bills to the ordinance was recognized by the Federal Parliament. However, it failed to endorse key bills such as federal civil servants and schooling. These two laws are necessary for the full implementation of the Constitution.
“It is not enough to recognize the decree and the alternative bill alone,” said Nepal MP Arjun Narsingh KC. “The Winter Conference is invalid. It fails to recognize the important federal civil servants and school education bill.”
Street teachers on the street demanding recognition of the School Education Act announced that the House meeting had not met their requirements, and the announcement would begin mass performances on Wednesday.
“We have already asked the teacher to go to Kathmandu and protest will start tomorrow [Wednesday]”It will continue until our needs are met,” said Laxmi Kishore Subedi, president of the Nepal Teachers Federation.
The federal protests have ignored calls from the House of Commons Committee on Education, Health and Information Technology. On Monday, Hhabilal Bishwakarma, the coordinator of the House Committee of Education, urged teachers to cancel the protests, saying the bill would be resolved after proper deliberation.
“We know the government has repeatedly sealed the agreement with the federal government,” he said. “We take the questions raised seriously and are very positive about solving them.”
Currently, the Subcommittee is discussing the bill at the provincial level.
Regarding several issues, including teacher management, the subpoena has received conflicting suggestions. Since the Constitution lists school education as the absolute authority of local governments, local departments want school teachers to fall within their jurisdiction. However, teachers do not want to stay with local authorities, claiming that local governments are likely to treat them based on their political inclinations.
In different circumstances, the federal government has agreed that teachers put them under the federal government.
The federal said their protests will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday and end at 4 p.m. It will be held simultaneously on Thursday and beyond. This is the second time in less than two years that teachers have taken to the streets of federal capital requiring laws.
After the government introduced the bill in the federal parliament in September 2023, the federal government staged a Kathmandu-centered incitement to oppose the different provisions in the bill. Thousands of teachers held protests in Kathmandu, damaging life in the capital and forcing the government to engage in dialogue.
They withdrew their protests after a six-point agreement with the government that promised to resolve their demands by amending the bill. The teacher is preparing for a similar protest.
The creation of the bill is a necessary condition for the implementation of the Nepal Constitution, which can delegate most of the powers to administer the education sector at the local and provincial levels. However, nearly a decade after the constitution came into force, the country has not yet formulated the act.
