Teachers Clash With Police As they Seek to Enter the Fort of Baneshwor

Teachers staging a protest for the fulfillment of their demand tried to enter a prohibited zone in Baneshwor, Kathmandu, on Sunday as their protest entered the 26th day. 
In the ensuing clash, teachers pelted police personnel with stones while the latter responded with water cannons. 

The clash came a day after the latest round of talks with the government held on Saturday ended inconclusively. 

Recently, a group of teachers in protest manhandled a fellow teacher over financial matters, days after a heated argument with an individual, who identifying himself as a parent, was opposing the teachers’ protest, citing its impact on students of public schools.

As the protest drags on, there are concerns from diverse sections of the society that the protest over its impact on the academic activities like the publication of Secondary Education Examination results and grade XII exams rescheduled to begin from May 4 following their postponement. Several local governments have started calling teachers to return to classrooms as the new academic year has already begun. 

At the call of Nepal Teachers' Federation, teachers of community schools from across the country have been staging a Kathmandu-centric protest demanding the enactment of a School Education Bill through the incorporation of their demands mentioned in agreements reached with the government, including the six-point deal of September 22, 2023.