May 11, Kathmandu- As per the agreement with the Nepal Teachers' Federation, the government has committed to passing the School Education Bill by the House of Representatives on Asadha 15. Accordingly, this commitment has also been reflected in the policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year. However, some provisions of the School Education Bill are now becoming complicated.

In which the issue of bringing child development education into schools seems to be the most complicated. The government is reluctant to implement this issue due to lack of budget resources.

Similarly, the issue of giving the right to school education up to the secondary level to the local level, as provided for in the constitution, also seems to have made the bill difficult. In this regard, according to the constitutional provision, the School Education Act also gives the right to school education up to the secondary level to the local level and implements it. But one demand of the teachers' movement is against that.

Similarly, a new proposal has been made to remove the provision that private schools should be ‘taken over’ to public trusts within five years, as proposed in the School Education Bill, and instead say that they can go wherever they want. The controversy over this issue has become another complicated issue.

Similarly, the issue of implementing ‘compulsory and free education’ as provided for in Article 31 of the Constitution is also complicated, say lawmakers.

These issues are being discussed in the subcommittee formed to discuss the School Education Bill under the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives. The subcommittee members themselves say that the subcommittee has not been able to resolve such complex issues.