Minister for Education, Science and Technology Devendra Paudel urged the Ministry of Finance to increase the budget in the education sector. At a discussion organized here Sunday, Minister Paudel urged the Ministry of Finance to be generous towards budget allocation in the education sector.
Minister Paudel also shared that preparation was ongoing to operate medical colleges in all seven provinces and demanded an adequate budget for the same. According to him, new programs were proposed as the establishment of IT and science labs in all public schools, development of physical infrastructures in 5,000 schools, facilitation of teaching-learning activities for students and teachers, additional quotas for teachers of English, mathematics, and science subjects, and extension of mid-day snacks to students up to Grade 8, among others.
The Minister also demanded an additional budget for building UNESCO villages, scholarships for medical students, and a feasibility study for setting up a multidisciplinary research center, among others. In response, Minister for Finance Janardan Sharma pledged to consider Minister Paudel's request and indicated the possibility of an increase in budget for the education sector in the upcoming fiscal year. He also suggested Minister Paudel to mull new plans and programmes in the areas of digital library, IT colleges, and schools, medical universities and IT universities among others.
