After kabi gosti, ( at Newroad)

Schools to reopen from today

All institutional and community schools across the country which have been shut down for two days because of a bandha announced by the Nepal Educational Republican Forum -NERF) will open from Friday.
Academic institutions will return to their normal business after the government expressed its commitment to implement the past agreements through holding a series of dialogues with the NERF in the days ahead. Another round of talks has been scheduled for Friday noon at the MInistry. "We agreed to open the schools from Friday and decided to give continuity talks on how the past agremements can be implemented at the earliest possible", Guna Raj Lohoni , former president of NERF and advisor to NERF told. The talks between the agitating teachers'unions and the government were held at 8 :00 a.m.to 12:00 noon and secod phase started from 4 :30 p.m. "The government also agreed to solve the teachers' and school employees' vancancies both in private and community scholls on a gradual basis and other past agreements linked four years ago," Lohoni said. Janardan Nepal, Joint secretary at the education Ministry, also said that the government was seriously engaged in implementing the past agreements with the unions through holding a series of dialogues in the coming days. (Source : The Rising Nepal)

A Dramatic Increase in Price

Government has increased salary of civil Servants. The impact is now in daily consumer goods. Trader has raised price in daily consumer goods and is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Opportunists are keeping stocks creating an artificial shortage. So, there is need of government interference.

Single Women not satisfied with Government allowance

Government announced to provide allowance to a person who marries a single woman. Single woman of Kaski has protested against it. "The Government should provide free education to our children, concession in transportation, ration card and proper employment instead", they said. In Nepal only 29 percent of them are literate. Many of woman got married in teen age so most of the single woman of 20-35 age are living with two three children.

Indefinite Strike Called ' Off '

After agreement between public transportation entrepreneurs and the government the transport strike was called off. The strike was announced on Sunday in eight district of Bagmati zone. The Protester demanded for the security and compensation to the vehicles that were vandalized in street protest.
Government has agreed to provide Four Lakhs Rupees as compensation to Micro Vans that was burnt in front of Trichandra Campus.