UML NATIONAL COUNCIL MEET ON 9 DECEMBER

UML NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL MEETS 9 DECEMBER

Kathmandu, 16 Sept.: UML national representative council meets for three days from 9 December.
The central committee of the party now in the opposition decided this Thursday.
The meeting will be convened in the capital.
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CALL TO END GROUPISM IN NC





Kathmandu, 16 Sept.: Nepali Congress leaders Thursday said that the UCPN-Maoist-led government should intensify the peace process in a package, The Rising Nepal reports.
Speaking at the district conference organized by NC Kathmandu District Committee here, the leaders demanded the party leadership to end groupism and factionalism for strengthening the party unity.
Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba said that the peace process could not be concluded without handing over the Maoists’ weapons to the government.
He said, "After forming the new government, the peace process was not moving ahead as desired and the handover of the key of arms containers was not adequate to conclude the peace process."
Deuba said that the NC had never created any obstacle to the peace process and demanded continuity to the peace process by creating an environment of trust and confidence.
He said that his party wanted to conclude the peace process in a package deal and asked the government to take the needed steps to conclude it.
In another context, he assured the supporters of NC that he would play the role to unite the party.
General secretary Prakash Man Singh urged the supporters to play a creative role to institutionalize the democratic culture in the local level committees.
He said that the party members should implement the party rules and regulations to institutionalize the democratic culture and added that the NC should play a constructive role to conclude the peace process.
NC leader Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat charged that the top leaders of the party were involved in factional politics, which had a negative impact in the local organisations of the party.
He said that the Prime Minister’s step such as using the Mustang jeep were positive, but he should try to control the misuse of more than a hundred vehicles by his party leaders.
NC leader Narahari Acharya said that the NC was ready to allow integration of only 3100 combatants in different security agencies.
He asked the leadership to clarify the social and economic policy of the party.
Nabindra Raj Joshi said that party leadership should bring in a new party policy to unite the party at the grassroots level.
He said that the leadership should pursue BP Koirala’s political philosophy of democratic socialism.
NC Kathmandu District Committee president Bhimsen Das Pradhan said
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DISABLED CHILDREN STILLPAY FEES





Kathmandu, 16 Sept.:, Although the government has guaranteed free education to the disabled children by introducing Disable Protection and Welfare Act 1982, the children with disability are still required to pay fees to the schools and colleges, The Rising Nepal reports.
The failure of the government to enforce the act effectively had compelled the Supreme Court to issue instructions to the government for the effective implementation of the act in 2000.
Drawing attention of all stakeholders on the ineffective implementation of both the act and decision of the Supreme Court, the people advocating for the rights of disabled people appealed the state to secure free education rights to the disabled children, at all private and public schools.
Shedding light on the problem faced by the disabled children in getting free education, Advocate Sudarshan Subedi said that the disabled children should get free education at all sorts of private or public educational organisations.
Subedi said, "The private schools and colleges must be committed to provide free education to the disabled children and for this the government must grant some sort of assistance for them."
Advocate Subedi said that still in many parts of the country, the disabled children even belonging to the poor family are forced to pay fees at their schools and colleges.
Stating that the private educational organisations are failing to abide by the regulation and are therefore overlooking their social responsibility, Subedi asked the state to play positive role for guaranteeing free education rights.
He said that the state should conceptualize clear provisions of assistances that should be provided as a relief to those private and public educational organisations which provided free education to the disabled students.
Jaya Prasad Lamsal, Under-Secretary of Education Department informed that the government was committed to secure free education rights for all the disabled children.
Lamsal said "The government has also been providing full scholarship with facilities of boarding houses to the disabled students who have had difficulties in moving from one place to another."
These students are provided scholarship under the category A that entitles them to get Rs. 1700 to Rs. 2,000.
Informing that the disabled children were categorised in four grades, he said the students of B grade gets scholarship worth Rs.5, 000 who need the help of others to reach their schools.
Likewise, children of C category who need the help of wheelchairs and crutches get Rs.3000 and those who fall in D grade with simple disability gets Rs. 500 as scholarship.
He further said that a total of 400 schools around the country had been provided with such facility for the disabled children. However, the government had been coordinating with private and public educational organisations for implementing the act.
Ramesh Silwal, Secretary of HISAN, expressed his commitment to provide free education to the disabled children if the government authority made coordination with them through a specific polity.
Bijay Sambahamfe, General Secretary of PABSON, said that due to the lack of a clear policy of the government, the private colleges couldn’t make any standard rules for free education to be provided to the disabled children.
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