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Free education to cost threefold

Free education to cost threefold

Posted by | May 9, 2018 | ,

The government needs to ensure three times the funds currently allocated in order to guarantee constitutional rights of children to compulsory and free school education. Article 31 (2) of the constitution says every citizen has the right to compulsory and free education up to the basic level (Grade 8) and free education up to the secondary level (Grade 12). The government requires an Act to enforce the provision by October 19 irrespective of the school a child goes to. Currently some 7.4 million students are studying in around 34,000 schools across the country. A study carried out by researcher...

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Kalanki subway ‘to open around end of June’

Kalanki subway ‘to open around end of June’

Posted by | May 9, 2018 | , ,

Kathmandu Ring Road Improvement Project engineer says 95 percent work complete Nepal’s first 800-meter underpass between Khasi Bazaar and Bafal Chowk along the Ring Road will open at the end of next month, a project official said on Tuesday. Kathmandu Ring Road Improvement Project (KRRIP) Engineer Niranjan Sharma said 95 percent work is complete. “We plan to open this section of the road around end of June. This section will spare commuters traffic hassles,” he said. Workers have completed asphalting and plastering half of the portion of the underpass towards Khasi Bazaar side. Crews have to complete asphalting on...

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Estimated Fiscal Transfer: Each province to get Rs 19b in fed grant

Estimated Fiscal Transfer: Each province to get Rs 19b in fed grant

Posted by | May 9, 2018 |

As provincial governments seek larger pies of resources from the federal government, the National Planning Commission has said that each province is expected to get a grant of Rs19 billion on average in the upcoming fiscal year. As per the NPC estimate, the seven provinces are estimated to get a total of Rs135 billion from the Centre under four types of grants—fiscal equalisation, conditional, matching and special. Additional resources will be available for the provinces through internal resource generation and transfer of taxes from the Federal Revenue Sharing Mechanism.With the provinces expected to collect just Rs15 billion on their...

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Shree Niwas fast-unto-death at Police Office

Shree Niwas fast-unto-death at Police Office

Posted by | May 9, 2018 | ,

Hindu leader Acharya Shree Niwas, who was arrested for trying to incite communal violence by staging an attack on himself to make it appear like an attempted religious assassination, has started fast-unto-death at District Police Office, Morang, on Wednesday. According to District Police Office, Morang, Chief Arun Kumar BC, Acharya has not eaten anything since he was brought to Biratnagar from Kathmandu. “We are administering slaine water to Acharya at the District Police Office,” he said, adding, “His wound has not been healed completely.” Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Kamal Thapa through his social media account Twitter said that the...

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China to conduct feasibility study

China to conduct feasibility study

Posted by | May 9, 2018 |

A team of Chinese engineers and officials are set to arrive in Kathmandu within a couple of weeks for conducting a feasibility study of the Kerung-Kathmandu railway line. The development follows understanding between Nepal and China that it is possible to develop the project, which lies in a difficult terrain, at a recent meeting held in Beijing.  China Railway First Survey Design Institute Group has been appointed to conduct the study. A delegation led by Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Secretary Madhusudan Adhikari had been to China last week to discuss the matter. “During the meeting in Beijing,...

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