Stakeholders condemn bomb explosions in schools

Kathmandu, Sept 21: Various stakeholders have stressed the need to make school a part of the Essential Service Act.

At a discussion programme organized here on Wednesday under the joint aegis of Civil Society Alliance, the stakeholders have noted the urgency of creating teaching and learning friendly and safe environment by incorporating school sector in the Essential Service Act.

On the occasion, representative of Education Ministry, Kamala Gyawali shared that the Ministry will hold meetings with the Central Security Monitoring Committee to keep school as a peace zone in the wake of bomb blasts in several schools of the capital.

Also speaking on the occasion, NPABSON Chairperson Karna Bahadur Shahi said the declaration of school as a peace zone has been confined to a paper and the act to create terror by planting bombs in schools is an outcome of indecent culture.

Other speakers including Nepal Student Union President Nain Singh Mahar, ANNFSU Secreatry Tulsi Lamichhane and ANNISU Vice-Chairperson RC Adhikari condemned the incident of bomb explosion in schools and called for the need of collective efforts for declaring school a peace zone.

Likewise, National Campaign for Education Nepal Vice-Chairperson Suvendra Man Shrestha, Nepal Teachers Federation general secretary Tilak Kunwar, Children Peace Zone and Child Protection Campaign Chairperson Krishna Subedi, among others cautioned all sides to prevent such heinous crimes in schools.