Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, the Director General at DoE, Mahashram Sharma, said that the incidents of vandalisms and shutdowns in schools is unfortunate at a time when the stakeholders have taken positively to the government´s decision to declare schools as Zone of Peace on May 25, 2011.[break]
Such statement of DoE has come after the student wing of the CPN-Maoist vandalized and set some college vehicles on fire in Kathmandu and Biratnagar demanding to end commercialization in education and replace the foreign names of the colleges with domestic ones. Similarly, the private higher secondary schools across the country were forced to close on Sunday and Monday.
Sharma has said that all demands related to the education sector can be resolved through talks as well.
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