Kathmandu, March 30
The Private and Boarding Schools’ Organisation Nepal (PABSON), a major association of private schools of the country, has put a few preconditions for complying with the government directive to waive one-month fees to be collected from the students.
PABSON says the government needs to waive the interests to be charged on the bank loans taken by the schools. Likewise, the government should make sure that the schools which are established on other individuals’ land should not pay one month’s rent to the landowners, it demands.
Earlier, on Sunday, the Cabinet had decided that the schools should waive all the fees except those for the residential facilities for the month of Chaitra. The organisation’s president Tika Ram Puri says it welcomes the decision, but the government should also provide it some relief.
The organisation has assured that it is committed to paying salary to the teachers and other staff regularly.
Meanwhile, an organisation of guardians and parents has doubted if the government decision about the fee waiver will be implemented.
