KATHMANDU: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to promptly address the demands of agitating teachers through dialogue.

The human rights watchdog body has urged the government to resolve the problems seen in sensitive sectors like education through dialogue and enable environment to resume classes.

In a press release issued today, NHRC Spokesperson Dr Tikaram Pokharel said, “The Commission urges the Government of Nepal to make the laws related to school education timely after holding adequate discussions and consultations with the concerned parties in the formulation of the law and to implement the agreements signed by the Government of Nepal in the past with the teachers”.

The Commission has said that the ongoing agitation by the Federation of Nepal Teachers in Kathmandu for the last 13 days demanding to bring the Education Act timely, to make the education policy productive and to implement the agreement signed with the Government of Nepal in the past to this effect has affected the right of children to education.

The Commission is carrying out on-site monitoring of the teachers’ movement. “If the agitation continues, the results of SEE, class 12 examinations and admission campaign of children will also be affected”, the NHRC noted in the release.