Kathmandu, February 9:

Teachers and staffers from various private and boarding schools of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur under the Institutional School Teachers’ Union-Nepal (ISTU-N) are all set to organise phasewise protest from February 14 if their basic demands are not fulfilled.

At a mass gathering today Narayan Poudel of the ISTU-N said: “We have put forth three-point demands of giving teachers the appointment letters for their service; providing basic salary and other facilities to teachers as that of the community schools and to include one ISTU member in each school’s management committee.”

He said that most of the teachers working in the private and boarding schools have not received appointment letters and they are also not getting salaries and other facilities as written in the Education Regulation. Poudel said: “If the government has given licence to operate schools as businesses, then we should get the membership of the trade union and if not then the Education Regulation must be followed.”

“Nearly one-and-half-month ago we reached an agreement with the Private and Boarding Schools’ Organisation Nepal and the National Private and Boarding Schools’ Organisation regarding fulfillment of our demands,” said Biswonath Gupta of the ISTU-N. “The private school organisations had expressed their commitment to fulfil demands within 10 days of the agreement but they have not implemented it,” he said.