INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 18Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said policy initiatives have already been started to upgrade
the Grade 10 Secondary Education Examination (SEE) results to about 70 percent.
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Addressing the programme organized by the National
Education Day, 2081 Celebration Main Committee here today, PM Oli said the government is steadfastly working to remove the existing
backwardness in the education sector.He added that significant improvement would be made in the SEE results, by teaching major subjects to
students through the online mode
The present pass rate of students in SEE is around 50 percent.
"Policy-level initiatives have already begun to bring
significant improvement in the SEE results
We have no time for making speeches
The education of this land that is home to education, knowledge, meditation, yoga, civilization, and culture cannot remain in the backwaters
now," Prime Minister Oli said.Noting that a wave of education development had automatically started in the villages of Nepal with the
establishment of democracy in 2007 BS, but we could not make strides in education to the extent possible in this area, he said, "The Rana
and Shah rulers were more engrossed in taking pleasure in comfort and their rule
Now the republic has been established
It is the responsibility of us all not to let education remain in the backwardness in this system."He urged educationists to produce capable
citizens who can compete at the world level.On the occasion, PM Oli presented prizes to the campuses, schools and organisations excelling in
higher education, school education, and social sector.National Education Day is being observed across the country today around the slogan -
"Knowledge, Science, Skills, Entrepreneurship, and Originality: Partnership and Systemic Competence."The government began celebrating
National Education Day on Ashoj 2 starting last year, based on the date of the certification of the "Compulsory and Free Education Act,
2075," which was enacted to implement the fundamental rights outlined in the constitution.
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