Kathmandu, May 1
Twelve youths — from plus-two graduates to Masters’ level students — have been staging a hunger strike for four days at Khula Manch, demanding jobs for all youths within Nepal, on the basis of their qualification and technical skills.
As part of the campaign titled Economic revolution for employment and propserity, these youths have been staging the fast-onto-death at the venue where preparations are afoot for an industrial trade fair.
Their six demands include jobs to Nepali youths within Nepal on the basis of their academic qualifications and technical skills, special package for national players and artists, unemployment allowance for the unemployed, concessional loans to unemployed youths with their academic certificates as collateral, ban on general strike and priority for goods produced in Nepal.
Volunteers looking after the youths on strike say the latter’s health is deteriorating. Most of those on strike are on IV support. An increasing number of young people are expressing solidarity with the 12 youths on strike.
