BANEPA: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said Nepal was facing the scarcity of skilled human resources owing to brain drain.

Addressing a function organised to mark the silver jubilee celebration of the Kathmandu University in Dhulikhel on Friday, President Bhandari said the universities should produce human resources that can champion various sectors at the national level and also emerge excellent in the globally competitive market.

Although the present need is of science and technology, she said it should also respect and promote national culture, geography, history and heritages.

The students need education that teaches them to respect labour, face adversities and devote to public welfare, the President stressed. "Our education should aim at meeting the need of human resources for the socio-economic development of the country," she added.

She also suggested that the state made adequate investment in infrastructures and resources for educational development. According to her, the educational sector could contribute to nation's economy once Nepal would be developed as the country of educational destination.

Also speaking at the programme, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli expressed his concern that the investment in education and its result were quite disproportionate. Education should not be the tool to produce unemployment, he said, it should be timely and competitive.

Similarly, Minister for Education Giriraj Mani Pokharel said the trend of copying foreign curriculum in Nepal's universities should end.

Vice-Chancellor of the Kathmandu University, Dr Ramkantha Makaju Shrestha, said education should be inculcated for wisdom and ration. He shared that Kathmandu University stands in 5,000 out of 20,000 universities across the world.