Speaker calls for increased investment in technical education

Jhapa, Jan 30: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Devraj Ghimire, has called on local levels to increase investment in technical education by ending the narrative that development is all about the construction of physical structures.     

Inaugurating the sixth convention of the second Municipal Assembly of Birtamod municipality here on Thursday, the Speaker insisted on the promotion of applied and technical education along with theoretical one. "This is the need for the nation."     

Stating that only theoretical education is not sufficient to produce skilled human resources, he said, "Information technology era has commenced and the local levels are warranted to take initiation for establishing technical schools."     

He urged the local governments to go with development endeavours only through the formulation of master plans.     

As he said, a large human force is getting engaged in negative tendencies in the absence of creative and labour-based technical education. "The existing education system has been largely producing unemployed human resources."     

He went on to say that the Constitution and laws have not prevented local levels to establish and operate technical and cultural schools in the given areas. According to Speaker Ghimire, employment-based and cultured human resources who can contribute to the cause of the nation should be accepted as the major pillar for the country's development. (RSS)