The government has decided to reinstate the permanent teachers of community schools who were displaced during the decade-long insurgency.

1. Govt to reinstate school teachers displaced during insurgency
The government has decided to reinstate the permanent teachers of community schools who were
displaced during the decade-long insurgency. A proposed draft bill of eighth amendment to the
Education Act has added a new provision for reinstating community school teachers.
Thousands of people, civil servants and teachers among others were displaced during the armed
rebellion launched by then CPN-Maoist from 1996 to 2006.
According to the proposed bill, if the tenure of any teacher ends at the time when the Act comes
into force, s/he will be entitle to pension. For others, there will be two options — either receiving
the gratuity and leaving the job or getting back to classrooms.
Displaced teachers and other teachers’ organisations have long been demanding that the
government provide their salary also for the duration when they were displaced. But the
government has said it will not oblige to their demands as they were not present in schools
during the insurgency.
In addition, there is another challenge before the government — it does not have the accurate
data of teachers who were displaced.
The government has proposed setting up an independent body to identify and verify genuinely
displaced teachers. Hari Lamsal, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Education, said the
government hoped the independent body would conduct its job in a such a way that justice is
delivered to all the teachers who were genuinely displaced.
According to teachers’ organisations, many teachers were displaced by state during the decade-long
conflict. But again most of them had quit their jobs for the fear of being attacked either by
the security personnel or the Maoists as those were turbulent times.
Shankar Adhikari, general secretary, All Nepal Teachers Organisation close to the Unified CPN-Maoist,
said that they wanted the government to provide all kinds of facilities to the displaced
teachers as well as reinstate them.