Unbundling/Detailing of List of Exclusive and Concurrent Powers of the Federation, the State (Province) and the Local Level Provisioned in the Schedule 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of the Constitution of Nepal

Report 

Federalism Implementation and Administration Restructuring

Coordination Committee

Magh, 2073

(Unofficial Translation)

Education in Nepal is in the need of policy level reform in order to cope with the need of future.
The Summary of Education Reform Report of Nepal 2075 is presented below for your reference. This will be helpful for aspirants for generating the ideas for suggestions to reform education sector in policy level.

Executive Summary:

By focusing on the constitutional system, the changes in the governance system and the vision of the "prosperous Nepal, happy Nepali" government, through the development of education, economic and social transformation towards socialism and the creation of a democratic, inclusive and egalitarian society, a factual study and analysis of the responsibilities and scope of the federal, provincial and local governments. A 24-member high-level National Education Commission was formed under the chairmanship of Honorable Minister of Education, Science and Technology Girirajmani Pokharel by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal dated 32 Ashad 2075 to present a report with recommendations. Later, by the decision of the commission, the president of the Nepal Teachers' Federation was nominated as an invited member, and it became 25 members.

The main objective of the commission is to analyze the current situation of Nepal and make suggestions regarding the measures to be adopted for the development of education, to guide the education sector with a blueprint for transformation and to provide a basis for the development of a socialist-oriented economy envisioned by the constitution.

2. Study process

During the preparation of the report, the Commission analyzed Nepal's international commitments, sustainable development goals, findings of various researches, reports and statistics of reliable national and international organizations, manifestos of major political parties and the report of the High Level Education Commission 2074. Institutional discussion, site visit, observation, group discussion, personal meeting, e-mail were used with the target group for study and opinion collection. The Commission formed eight different thematic groups, separately or jointly, and held direct meetings and discussions with more than 4,000 education stakeholders, observed on-site studies in educational institutions, interacted and intensively discussed with other related organizations. The received suggestions were integrated and a preliminary draft was prepared and a provincial level suggestion gathering workshop and interaction program was conducted in the presence of local stakeholders to collect more suggestions on the draft. The first draft was prepared by including the suggestions received from there. To discuss the first draft, a National Education Conference was held in Kathmandu on 5th and 6th Paush 2075 under the chief hospitality of Honorable Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. The commission prepared the final report after holding 27 regular and formal and several informal meetings.

3. Outline of the report

Higher National Education Commission- 2075, report

In the report, the vision of education, guiding principles, national objectives of education including access, equity, quality, organizational and managerial aspects, past and present situation analysis, major problems, issues and challenges, recommendations and recommendations for implementation at the level of the government. Roles and responsibilities are mentioned. Policy recommendations and strategic roadmaps are included in the recommendations. Quality in education, curriculum and assessment, teacher management, educational leadership, administrative organization structure of education, inclusiveness, Eastern philosophy and education, education in mother tongue, traditional education system, library management, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, research and development, information in education and The report has been organized into 31 different chapters on the use of communication technology, safe environment and learning, educational institutions run by foreign boards, governance in education, investment in education, etc. The guiding principles and national objectives of education have been presented as a vision of building a developed and prosperous nation through the development of quality education. Likewise, the government's responsibilities, current, mid-term and long-term policies and strategies have been determined. In addition, for the effective implementation of these suggestions, the methods, processes and organizational structures to be adopted by the Union, State and local levels have also been recommended.

4. Current state of education development

Education is the backbone of development. Education is being accepted as an indispensable means for sustainable peace and prosperity of the country through a knowledge-based society. The right to education is guaranteed as a fundamental right in the Constitution of Nepal. In addition, the policy of increasing state investment in education by making education scientific, technical, professional, skill oriented and employment oriented has been adopted. Until now, significant achievements have been achieved in Nepal's education from a quantitative point of view. The number of early childhood development centers is 36568, the number of schools is 35601, campuses including universities providing higher education are 1407, technical schools are 876, institutions providing short-term skill training are 1078, community learning centers are 2151 and more than 7.7 lakh students and about 5 lakh human resources in these institutions. are working. By the end of the financial year 2074/75, the adult literacy rate of the age group of 15 to 60 years has reached 82 percent, while the youth literacy rate of the age group of 15 to 24 years has reached over 90 percent. The number of children enrolled in class 1 with experience of pre-primary education has reached 66.3 percent. The net enrollment rate for classes 1 to 5 is 97.2 percent and the net enrollment rate for classes 1 to 8 is 97.2 percent and reached 92.5 percent. At the secondary level (grades 9-12), only 43.9 percent of children of a certain age group have been enrolled so far. Likewise, the gender equality index is 1:1 at both the school education and higher education levels. It seems that the enrollment rate in higher education has reached about 15 percent.

 19 Mangsir 2079, Dec 5, 2022

Ok, I will make a daily roundup of news and opinions of today and my understanding from it.

Articles Read:

1. Hung Parliament: Constitution in Risk by Baburam Bishwakarma, Published 2079/08/19 in Nayapatrika

            त्रिशंकु संसद् : जोखिममा संविधान

My Key takeaways:

• No parties or their alliance scored a clear majority and no party has declared to sit in the opposition bench in the parliament. This is due to the power greed of these parties. They will do whatever it takes to be on the ruling side.

• This has been evident after the dissolution of the Constitution of 2047 on the 4 elections that no single party will be in the majority.

• This election system has risked the nation's next political insurgency. No stable government is seen in the last 39 years after 2047 B.S.

• Suggestion: to adopt full representative election or direct elect (FPTP) and remove the hung parliament disease that has been plaguing us since 2047 B.S.

2. This is how Nepal will get Prosperous by Milan Pandey Published 2079/08/16 in Nayapatrika

            यसरी धनी बन्नेछ नेपाल

My Key Takeaways:

• The 70-70 rule in Israel by PM Naftali Bennett was a great success which was about working on 70% issues raised by 70% of the general public with the common consensus of the coalition government. Nepal also needs to build consensus among all major parties for issues of national interests and daily interest like easy transport, quality education, price hike control, quality and cheap health services, peace and security.

• Nepal has a dire scarcity of team work among political parties and working with people of different ideologies. What we need is the common goal of Economic Prosperity and all political parties with common consensus working towards it.

• For Economic Prosperity of Nepal, Writer suggest 3 major roles for state, society and citizens:

1. Identification of National Resource (State):

• Make the priority of making citizens, states and institutions stronger and stable.

• Boost the morale of Bureaucracy.

• Identify core national resources.

• Build a national capital formation and development plan and make it a national priority. For Nepal such sectors are Agriculture, Tourism, Water Resource and Human Capital (Physical and Intellectual.

2. Creation and Promotion of Entrepreneurship in the Society (Society):

• State and society should focus on promoting entrepreneurship.

• Government should be clear about its functions and end goals.

• Government should facilitate and make an enabling environment to promote the development of the nation.

3. Aspiration of being Effective and Result Oriented (Citizen):

• The State has to create a facilitating environment for citizens which fosters the creativeness, effectiveness of the citizens.

• Build skills to increase efficiency, to become result oriented citizens and institutions. Invest in yourself to build skills. Create a culture of helping others in the process as well.

• For economic prosperity social justice should go hand in hand. For social and political stability inequality should be ended. There is a huge economic cost to such inequality as studied by City Group in the US.

• Citizens expect quality education, health services and employment as per their qualification. This is the prosperity expected by citizens. For this above mentioned role of citizens, society and state has to be fulfilled with utmost sincerity.

3. Squatter Settlements seeking Coordination and Sensitivity by Srinkhala       Khatiwada Published 2079/08/18 in Ekantipur

समन्वय र संवेदनशीलता खोज्दै सुकुम्बासी बस्तीहरू

My Key Takeaways:

• Squatter Settlement is not new in the world, it is the major problem of every rising city including Kathmandu.

• There is a need for proper identification of landless and squatters from the government side and their alternative settlement or restoration. Agenda of proper dispute settlement, multilateral negotiations and preventing new encroachment is the need of today.

• Proper coordination and rational-sensitive decision-making is needed from the state side, as the squatter settlements have become deeply rooted with political, economic and psychological entrenchment. Long term solution to this problem is to be identified, even though it can take a long time. It is not enough to look at them with only black and white eyes of legal and social aspects.

4. Pictures of Stranded Documents in Keshar Mahal Published 2079/08/19 in Ekantipur

केशरमहलमा अलपत्र सरकारी कागजात [फाेटाेफिचर]

My Key Takeaways:

• Shows our dismal condition of lack of managing history and official documents, there is no system of record management, knowledge transfer and learnings from history and preventing our previous mistakes from happening again. It’s truly disheartening to see this picture.

5. Tourist flow has increased in Nepal after Long time.

6. Protest in Bangabagar in Darchula after the Indian Side unilaterally constructed an embankment along the Mahakali river. Role of Nepal Government is yet to see to solve such border issues.

7. 76% females to be elected on state through proportionate method of representation, only 14 elected from first past the post method.

8. Nepal’s 1st Flyover to be made in Gwarko, Lalitpur.

9. Seasonal Flu Increased after COVID and Dengue epidemic slowed down.

10. South Korea spent 2 Billion dollars to increase its fertility rate. Required rate 2.1, current rate 0.79

Disclaimer: This post is created to summarise the key takeaway of the articles published on various major newspapers of Nepal. This is not the direct copy of the source material but an effort to distil the crux of such articles. Original Sources are attached for the reference.