Teachers from across the country took part in the Kathmandu-centric protest called by the Nepal Teachers’ Federation on Thursday.

Expressing 17-point dissatisfaction over the school education bill, teachers from various districts came to Kathmandu to take part in the protest that started from Wednesday.

Teachers from across the country have started an indefinite protest, expressing dissatisfaction over some of the provisions of the school education bill registered in the Parliament.

Though a meeting was held between the representatives of the agitating Nepal Teachers’ Federation and Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayankaji Shrestha and Education Minister Ashok Rai among others, it ended without making a concrete decision.

After no agreement was reached in the talks, teachers took out a rally from Maitighar to New Baneshwor and chanted slogans.

Earlier on Wednesday, around 15,000 teachers of government schools took to the streets by disrupting teaching-learning activities as well as road traffic in Kathmandu in their bid to ‘teach’ some lesson to the government and the Parliament about the possible consequences of ignoring their demands.   

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As per the federation, the bill has failed to address issues like job security of temporary teachers, creation of non-teaching staff positions, concerns of pre-school teachers, promotion of teachers, appointment of the principal, transfer of teachers as well as performance appraisal.

The bill’s provision on empowering local units to evaluate and transfer teachers has also not gone well with the federation, which earlier boycotted a meeting that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had called.

The protesting teachers said that they would continue the protest until their demands are met.