Kathmandu, March 21:

The Students’ Parliament in University (SPU) has been launching an awareness campaign throughout the country since Monday with an aim to educate the students and people of rural areas about constituent assembly and ensure the role of general people in the formation of a new Nepal.

According to the SPU members, it has selected 25 colleges from five development regions to carry on their campaign. “Each college will train 100 students about CA and constitution with references from 17 countries including the USA, France, Japan and Switzerland.

After the training each college will outline a new constitution of Nepal. The students, then, will go to villages to aware people about their role in making a new constitution,” Dr Tirtha Raj Luitel, coordinator of the campaign, said at a press conference organised here today.

According to him, 100 students from each college will be mobilised in the door-to-door programmes in different villages that will help people understand about their role in the CA polls. They claimed that the villagers, after taking part in the awareness campaign, would be able to make future plans to develop their villages.

Luitel said that the goal of the campaign was to make people capable to choose their leaders

and to have greater say in the to-be-made constitution that is expected to decide their fate.

Pushpa Raj Bhattarai, joint-coordinator of the campaign, said this was high time the students demonstrate their ability and ensure their place in the new Nepal. He added the history has always brushed aside the role of youths and has handed over leading positions to old ones.

He said the campaign would be a part of the youths’ vision about the future of the country,

where every person will have equal right to decide his future.