KIRTIPUR: Management committee of the Laboratory School, which is running on the Tribhuvan University (TU) premises, today protested the decision of the varsity to remove the school from there.

On November 15, the TU had published a notice calling on guardians not to admit their children in the school for the upcoming academic session.

Speaking at a programme, Dr Bal Gopal Baidhya, president of the School Management Committee (SMC), said the TU's notice was objectionable. "The school is running under a trust with an objective of providing quality education to the children of physically challenged and conflict-hit people, apart from others," he said.

Executive director of the school Umesh Shrestha, who is also the president of Higher Secondary Schools Association Nepal, said, "We are ready to leave the school if the university takes the responsibility of its students and teachers."

"Rather than safeguarding the school, which is imparting education to needy children, the TU is displacing it," he added. Krishna Gopal Shrestha, guardian as well as an SMC member, said the TU's move had shocked them.

Laboratory School was established as a Demonstration School in 1956. It was later shifted to the present location under a tripartite agreement between Ministry of Education, USAID and the TU.