KATHMANDU, MARCH 6

Newly appointed Minister for Education, Science, and Technology, Sumana Shrestha, has decided to initiate amendments to relevant laws to appoint experts as Chancellors and Co-Chancellors for all 11 universities in the country.

Assuming her office at Singha Durbar this evening, Minister Shrestha directed the authorities to carry out preliminary activities aimed at imparting quality education to Nepali youths and to make amendments to existing laws to prevent politicization in universities.

During the occasion, she shared plans for a policy-level decision after conducting surveys on why youths seek higher education abroad, aiming to enhance educational quality and address priority issues through discussions with officials from the Education Ministry.

The Education Minister emphasized facilitating the Education Committee's decision to take the School Education Bill 2080, currently under consideration in the Parliamentary Committee, for discussion in provinces.

Secretaries of the Ministry, Suresh Adhikari, and Pramila Devi Acharya welcomed her during the occasion.

As a lawmaker from the Rastriya Swatantra Party, Shrestha brings experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, and campaigner. She led a movement by mobilizing communities at the local level for the reconstruction of Kasthamandap and conservation of Ranipokhari.

Shrestha holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.