By Madhusudan Timilsina
Kavre, Dec. 6: Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota Friday suggested linking education with income generation.
“With the increasing importance of public education, there is a need for making it easily accessible to all and linking it with income generation,” Minister Baskota said while inaugurating an 18-room newly constructed building of Arunodaya Secondary School at Bhumlu Rural Municipality of the district.
Minister Baskota suggested the school administration to impart practical, social and external knowledge to students, instead of limiting their knowledge just in the prescribed texts.
Minister Baskota said that the nation required a new education policy by developing new infrastructure in education sectors and the government was taking decisions accordingly.
“It is also the responsibility of the community to monitor the development activities to ensure their quality,” he said.
Minister Baskota also urged the school administration and local representatives to give a due attention to improve quality of education and infrastructure of public schools.
The role of community schools and education was crucial in the development of the country, he said.
Attraction of students towards the community schools should also be increased by developing a good and attractive infrastructure and delivering quality education, he said.
Minister Baskota also inaugurated a newly constructed building of Setidevi Secondary School in Chaubash of the district.
At the function, State Assembly member Laxman Lamsal stressed on formulating right policy for the development of public education in Nepal.
Uddhav K.C. chief of District Coordination Committee, Kavre, said that the Committee had given high priority to the development of infrastructure of the public schools.
He informed that reconstruction of the school buildings damaged in the 2015 earthquake was moving in a high pace so that construction of all the school buildings would be completed by April 2021.