Education Ministry asks EC to provide details of work execution committees of political parties

KATHMANDU, APRIL 25: The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has urged the Election Commission (EC) to provide it with details of the work execution committee of the political parties. According to the Ministry, a decision was taken to write to the EC demanding the details of office-bearers of all the central, province and district level work execution committees of the political parties.

Secretariat of the Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sumana Shrestha, said the details of the political parties affiliated working committees, which are in the record of the EC, have been sought in order to take action against those teachers affiliated in the political parties. After receiving the record from the EC, the Ministry would cross-check the details of teachers and employees, which the ministry has, and office-bearers of the work execution committee of the political parties, it is said.

Minister Shrestha has been warning of the forwarding process for legal action against the teachers and staff if they were found holding positions in the work execution committees of the political parties. According to the Secretariat, the Ministry has received complaints about the issue that teachers and staff working at community schools have taken membership in different political parties, are holding positions in work execution committees and are the party’s general convention delegates.

Earlier, the Ministry had already sent a circular to District-based education development and coordination units to take action against those teachers and staff, who are members of political parties’ work execution committees. Some of the district units have already forwarded action as per the circular. A ministerial decision had already been taken to remove teachers holding positions on political parties’ work execution committees as per the existing laws and the court’s order to inform the Ministry about this and take action continuously on such complaints of the same nature.