Parties draw fire for eyeing quota
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE BIRATNAGAR: The three big parties UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have drawn fire for pressing for appointment of their supporters as teachers under relief quota meant for Dalit candidates.
At stake are the 25 seats that the Morang District Education Office has made available for the government schools in Morang. Though CPN-ML, Sadbhavana Party and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum are also represented in the Samyukta Dalit Struggle Committee, which has a role in the appointment of Dalit teachers, the Maoist party, NC and the UML have staked claim on eight, seven and six seats, respectively, a panel member said.
He said this unfair practice has evoked widespread criticism.
Condemning the big parties for trying to reserve most of the vacant seats for their near and dear ones, Dalit Mukti Samaj (Morang) said their scheme is unacceptable. Jitan Narayan Sah, chairman of the UML-aligned Mukti Samaj, also lambasted the parties for trying to pick their kith and kin as teachers at the expense of those Dalits, who have been teaching for long. We wont let the big parties have their way, Durga Bishwakarma, in-charge of the Samajs Morang chapter, said. Other parties represented in the committee have also opposed the big parties scheme. They say that the already working teachers should get preference. Meanwhile, Pramod Kumar Sah, District Education Officer, said he can do nothing in this case as he is supposed to accept the decision of the political parties.
At stake are the 25 seats that the Morang District Education Office has made available for the government schools in Morang. Though CPN-ML, Sadbhavana Party and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum are also represented in the Samyukta Dalit Struggle Committee, which has a role in the appointment of Dalit teachers, the Maoist party, NC and the UML have staked claim on eight, seven and six seats, respectively, a panel member said.
He said this unfair practice has evoked widespread criticism.
Condemning the big parties for trying to reserve most of the vacant seats for their near and dear ones, Dalit Mukti Samaj (Morang) said their scheme is unacceptable. Jitan Narayan Sah, chairman of the UML-aligned Mukti Samaj, also lambasted the parties for trying to pick their kith and kin as teachers at the expense of those Dalits, who have been teaching for long. We wont let the big parties have their way, Durga Bishwakarma, in-charge of the Samajs Morang chapter, said. Other parties represented in the committee have also opposed the big parties scheme. They say that the already working teachers should get preference. Meanwhile, Pramod Kumar Sah, District Education Officer, said he can do nothing in this case as he is supposed to accept the decision of the political parties.
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