SURYA BAHADUR THAPA ADMITTED TO NORVIC HOSPITAL

SURYA BAHADUR THAPA ADMITTED TO NORVIC HOSPITAL

Kathmandu, 20 Dec. Former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur
Thapa was admitted to Norvic Hospital Monday , aide Kiran hapalsaidddd.
Thapa, a heart patient, is Chairman of Rashriya Janashakti Party.
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NEW FOREIGN MINISTRY CRITERIA TO EVALUATE WORKOF AMBASSADORS
Kathmandu, 20 Dec.: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has initiated internal reform with a 34-point plan of action, incorporating a range of issues, The Himalayan Times reports.

“We formulated the plan of action to render effective the ministry’s activities,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha.

The plan of action deals with ambassadorial appointments, criteria for evaluating their performance and conditions for their recall.

The plan of action contains suggestions regarding how to manage human resources on the basis of the concept of right man in the right post, how to address the problems of clients promptly, how to make effective coordination within and with other ministries are among the issues in the reform plan of action.
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EDUCATION MINISTRY INVESTIGATE HGHTR EDUCATION BILL
Kathmandu,, 20 Dec.: Ministry of Education (MoE) has formed a nine-member taskforce under the coordination of MoE Joint-secretary Arjun Bhandari to study the Higher Education Bill, also known as the umbrella act for universities.

A meeting held on December 18 between Education Minister Dina Nath Sharma and representatives of Nepal Public Campus Association (NPCA) and Nepal Public Campus Teachers’ Association (NPCTA), the umbrella organisation of public campus teachers working in 375 community-run colleges across the district, had decided to form a taskforce that would be tasked with the study of the Higher Education Bill.

The taskforce includes joint secretaries of MoE namely Janardan Nepal, Laba Dev Awasthi, NPCA President Baikuntha Neupane, vice presidents of NPCA Ishwor Gautam, Dhana Lal Maharjan, NPCTA President Gopal Panday, senior vice president Durga Dutta Poudel and general secretary Narendra Koirala.

Maharjan, vice president, NPCA said the taskforce has been assigned to study whether the Higher Education Bill can address their demand for establishment of a separate Nepal Public University.

The NPCA vice-president

went on to inform, “The recently formed taskforce has been given 15 days to carry out an intensive study of the bill that was tabled

in Parliament on November 3

for further discussion.”

He said that the education minister had assured that if the taskforce found that the bill did not address their demands, he would table the Nepal Public University bill drafted by the University Grants Commission two years back, to the Cabinet.

More than 500 public campus teachers from across the country had staged a sit-in in front of the MoE to press the government to fulfil their demands.

Maharjan further informed that a meeting of NPCA and NPCTA organised this morning had decided to call off their pre-scheduled strike.

Protest programmes including sit-in before MoE from December 18, sit-in in Chitwan district by public campus teachers and public on December 20, sit-in before all District Administration Offices for two hours from 11:00 am from December 21.
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