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Security agencies propose 2 day leave during SAARC summit

With a view to easing vehicular movement of VVIPs, VIPs and minimizing security risks, security agencies have recommended a two-day public holiday in Kathmandu Valley during the 18th SAARC Summit to be held in Kathmandu from November 22 to 27.

The government is mulling announcing a two-day holiday in the Valley during the meeting of the head of states and governments of SAARC member states on November 26-27.

According to a highly placed official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), the ministry has proposed a two-day holiday in Kathmandu Valley responding to the requests of security agencies.

With the summit to begin in just three weeks, government officials and security agencies are working on a war-footing to make the summit a grand success. A highly placed police official said, “The government is positive toward our proposal.”

“We have made all security arrangements for the visiting dignitaries,” said AIG Ganesh Rai, who chairs the SAARC Security Committee. If the government announces public holiday during the summit, it will not only relieve the motorists but also help minimize security risks, he added.

In comparison to the 11th SAARC Summit that was held in Kathmandu in 2002, the number of vehicles in the Valley has increased fourfold, according to the Metropolitan Police Traffic Division, Kathmandu. In 2002, the number of vehicles registered in the Valley was 181,000 but the number has reached 755,000 now.

DIG Keshav Adhikari, who heads the Traffic Police Division, said, if there is no public holiday managing the traffic during the VVIPs and VIPs movement would be a tough task, he added.

Apart from regular policing, surveillance has been stepped up at major junctions of the Kathmandu Valley. Additional personnel have been deployed for the purpose. About 22 sub-committees formed under the co-ordination of the Chief of General Staff (CGS) Lieutenant General Pawan Bahadur Pande, have been working on making security arrangements.

source: republica, 28 oct 2014

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Tribhuvan University announces admission open for Bachelor Level various faculties 2071/072

Copying in exams

SUJAN PAUDEL
Copying in examination has become very common these days. The 21st century, known as the age of science and technology, is the age of competition. Everybody wants to win, or become better than others. In every household, parents compel their children to secure first-position scores or do as good as they can in school or college. Many times, students resort to cheating to score high marks.

But the question is, even if students do score higher marks by cheating, will that help them when they  join the work force? How will they contribute to developing the nation?

Students have adopted different ways to copy in examinations. They exchange their answer-sheets or consult answers for difficult questions with their friends. Many even work really hard to prepare chits with solutions to probable questions. Some try to persuade the invigilator with the hope that s/he may help them with the answers or give them the liberty to discuss with their friends. In the pretext of taking toilet break, students take time to read chits or other materials hidden in the toilets or in their bodies. It has also been reported in many newspapers that in some examination centers in rural areas of Nepal, examinees throw question paper out of the window and their friends/relatives waiting outside the exam hall solve the questions and resend them to the examinees.

To address this problem, this defective system of education should be checked. To begin with, parents and teachers should stop pressurizing students to focus on their scores. This unnecessary psychological pressure often mentally tortures students. Rather, focus should be shifted to encouraging learning.

Another measure to be adopted is to follow the vocational system of education. This system emphasizes on the practical approach to learning.

Also, those who are caught copying or helping students in the examination hall should be  punished. Last but not the least, I think the ratio of students and the invigilators in the exam hall should match.

I hope, if these measures are adopted, wheat can be sorted out from the chaff to some extent.

Sujan is a Class IX student at Siddhartha Vanasthali Institute in Kathmandu. 
source: republica,20 oct 2014

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EPS Test Results: 93.8 percent fail Korean language test

Results of the Korean language test under the Employment Permit System (EPS) held this year have been published on Wednesday.

Of the total 58,770 applicants appearing in the language test on September 26 and 27, only 6.2 percent, or 3,663 candidates, passed the test conducted by the Human Resource Department of EPS-Korea. Of those who passed the test, 3,462 are male and 2 female.

According to Dilli Bastola, chief at EPS-Nepal, 2,768 candidates for industrial sector and 895 for agricultural sector passed the language test. All the necessary procedures for the passing candidates will be completed by November-December. “The passing candidates would leave for Korea by January 2015,” said Bastola.

The results of the EPS test published are available on the official website of Employment Permit System (EPS) section.

A total of 62,514 applicants had filled the application forms from Kathmandu, Dharan and Butwal. Of them, 52,485 male and 6,285 female candidates appeared for the Korean language test.

Nepali officials said the demand for female workers is low in South Korea and this could be the reason for low participation of female candidates in the Korean language test.

source: republica,16 oct 2014

Tribhuvan University announces examination schedule of Master Level 2nd year

Tribhuvan University, Institute of Science and Technology, Office of the dean, Kirtipur announces examination routine of Masters Level 2nd year.

Please find the published examination routine below:

Scholarships selection examination notice 2071 from Ministry of Education(MOE) Nepal,MBBS, BDS, BSc Nursing, BPH, B. Pharmacy, BMLT, BAMS, BSc Forestry

Scholarships selection examination notice from Ministry of Education(MOE) Nepal for Undergraduate Level (Biology Group) for course MBBS, BDS, BSc Nursing, BPH, B. Pharmacy, BMLT, BAMS, BSc Forestry.

Notice has been published on Gorkhaparta Daily on 2071/6/29.Click the link (.pdf) below to view full notice:Scholarships selection examination notice from MOE

EducationUSA University Fair 2014

USEF offers you a fantastic opportunity to meet with Admissions Officers from THREE U.S. colleges and universities! Attend the EducationUSA University Fair at USEF-Nepal, Gyaneswor on Wednesday, October 29, 2014.

Meet with Admissions representatives from the following American universities:
> Grand Valley State University, Michigan
> Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
> University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York

Additionally, meet with:
- U.S. Embassy Consular Officers
- The American Library

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Time: 9:30-11:00 a.m. (Session One)
3:00-4:30 p.m. (Session Two)
Venue: USEF-Nepal, Gyaneswor
Open to: Undergraduate and graduate applicants
Cost: Free!
Register: Register for one of the two sessions in advance
at USEF-Nepal’s front desk with national ID
Program: Half an hour of presentations by university representatives followed by a one-hour university fair.

Important:
Please report on the event day 20 minutes early for check-in with your admission ticket and national ID.

If you have any questions, please call USEF-Nepal at 4414-498. Thanks!

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Education, a must to empower adolescent girls

PRAGYA POKHREL
I often find my father – now in his 60s – berating my mom for very simple reasons, like he did not like the way she spoke, she spent a minute more in the temple or at the shop than the previous days, and many more trivial issues.

If she wants to speak out, then every single word she uses first has to get a permit pass. And when her words do get the green signal, she gets scolded for missing out some conjunctions or articles in her sentence even before she’s finished what she had wanted

to say. She has to do according to what he says. Stand, speak, eat only when asked, or else remain like a statue.

In short, my mom’s life is completely dictated by my father.

At this point, what I believe is, had she been independent and had a job of her own, that too, well before getting married, she wouldn’t have seen this day in her 50s. Although educated and a topper in her class—excellent in both academics and extracurricular activities—she landed up doing nothing but household chores.

Polishing the husband’s shoes, massaging an in-law’s legs, offering free services to every other family member and in return getting bitter remarks for all her works became her daily routine.

I’m not being negative about household chores, but her life being dictated, dominated and demoralized is my concern.

Such incidents with my mother make me think that marriage ruins everything. But, on a deeper level, I guess economic dependency is the culprit. ‘Monetary crisis,’ as I’ve seen, read and experienced, is the major factor that causes family disputes and violence and often the victims are women.

Until and unless girls, who grow up to become women, wives and mothers, are socially, mentally, politically and economically independent, such plights – like those of my mother’s – are to be repeated. Then this story will no longer belong to my mother alone but to all those women who are completely dependent on their husbands.
Be it wealthy families or mediocre ones, the culture of dominating the wife exists in one form or the other. Unless these women don’t have a strong academic background, this deep-rooted ‘tradition’ cannot be uprooted.

It is only education that helps girls speak out against what wrongs are being done to them. They can then raise their voices against violence and harassment. They can start campaigns, file petitions against their abusers and teach these wrongdoers a few lessons.

In addition to these, education helps them pursue careers of their choices and become financially independent.

Thus, empowering adolescent girls through academic education, further technical and vocational teaching and training as well as enabling them with life skills, social support, knowledge and participation at this particularly vulnerable stage of their lives can help end the cycle of violence before it persists or begins.

The government should also be able to formulate strong laws in favor of women. Isn’t it sad, however, that despite claiming to provide equal rights to all of its citizens, Nepal’s Constitution is still biased against women in terms of inheritance and citizenship rights?

Therefore, simply introducing rules and regulations won’t change anything. First of all, the society should collectively work to bringing an end to violence against women.

For this to happen, participation of everyone makes a lot of positive difference. Active male participation is a must, too.

Stopping violence against women should not just be limited to our discussions; actions are needed.

Unless women are educated, healthy, and independent, the family as a whole won’t flourish and violence against women will never come to an end.

And in case you have doubts as to when and how to start taking steps for the changes, I would like to cite the Hollywood actor Emma Watson from her speech she made during the recent launching of her ‘HeForShe’ campaign at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA:

“Ask for yourself, if not me, who, if not now, when?”

The writer is an undergraduate student of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Kantipur Engineering College in Dhapakhel, Lalitpur.

source:PRAGYA POKHREL , republica,11 oct 2014

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