Temporary teachers likely to be displaced

APRIL 21, 2014 – The schools teachers working on a temporary basis since 2063 B.S. are likely to be displaced as the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) gears up to publish the result for permanent enrollment.
The TSC is publishing the result of the 13,000 teachers of various subjects for secondary level in different districts soon while it is taking interview for the primary teachers from this week.
The government and different teachers’ organizations had agreed to provide extra number for the teachers’ experiences in course of their permanency.
Even if they failed to be selected in the process, the government agreed not to displace the teachers working on a temporary basis from their profession.
The government in the past agreed to make internal competition to the teachers working on temporary basis and appointed before 2063 B.S.
As many as 55,000 teachers are working on a temporary basis and under relief quotas across the country.
The temporary teachers have been organizing relay hunger strike at Ratnapark while the relief quota teachers are staging a strike at Department of the Education since January.
Chairman of All Nepal Teachers’ Association, Lal Bahadur BC said the Association would be forced to take to the streets if the past agreement was not implemented the.
Similarly, General Secretary of Nepal National Teachers’ Organization, Laxman Sharma, appealed to the government not to displace the teachers working on a temporary basis and on relief quotas and to adopt golden handshake policy respecting their contribution to the education sector. SETOPATI