Separate Policy will be introduced for Relief Quota Teachers: Minister Pokharel

Okhaldhunga / Dec 23 : Minister for Education, Science and Technology Girirajmani Pokharel has stated that the government would introduce a separate policy for the teachers recruited under the relief quota but they will not be automatically inducted into permanent position.

Minister Pokharel said so while addressing the condolence assembly organized on the demise of Manorath Khatiwada, father of NCP Standing Committee’s invitee member Peshal Acharya at Molung Rural Municipality-4 Harkapur in Okhaldhunga today.

Stating that three important Bills relating to education were going to be passed in this winter session of the Federal Parliament, Minister Pokharel reassured that a new process would initiated for managing the relief teachers.

Pokharel said, “One of the challenges facing the community schools across the country was managing the teachers recruited under various quotas. We are trying to reform it.”

According to him, the community schools across the country still needed 39,000 more school teachers for the community schools whose number stands at 29,207 as per the survey conducted by the Department of Education in 2012/13.

Minister Pokharel underlined the need to move ahead considering changes in our custom and traditional values with the changing time. He was talking with a reference to Peshal Acharya who, on the contrary to the traditional Hindu mourning rituals, did not perform the 13-day ritual on the demise of the father deeming the traditional to be ‘too unpractical and archaic.’

Acharya did so in a bid to lead the change by example by not following the Hindu orthodox rituals having many traditions, rituals and customary practices for a human to practice.

By doing so, as Minister Pokharel put it, Peshal had initiated a sort of ‘Cultural Revolution’ which he again said, was certainly not a ‘child’s play’.

Late Manorath was a politician and had undertaken several social initiatives in his locality, one of them being the establishment of Pradeep Secondary School at Harkapur in the district.

Among his four sons, eldest son Deep Prasad is no more while two others sons were performing the 13-day death rituals. RSS