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By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Sept.18: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has emphasized the need to include backward classes, regions, genders, and castes in the mainstream of education and distribute opportunities equally for quality education. He mentioned that ensuring equal opportunities and benefits is indispensable to removing inequality at all levels and opportunities of provincial and local education.
Extending his best wishes on the occasion of "National Education Day 2081 BS," Prime Minister Oli stated that the government is committed to increasing the budget allocation for the education sector, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and passing the School Education Bill 2081 BS through discussions. The government began celebrating National Education Day on Ashoj 2 (September 18 this year) starting last year, based on the date of the certification of the "Compulsory and Free Education Act, 2075," which was enacted to implement the fundamental rights outlined in the constitution. The PM expressed his happiness that National Education Day is being celebrated nationwide this year with the slogan, "Knowledge, Science, Skills, Entrepreneurship, and Originality: Partnership and Systemic Competence.
" In his message of best wishes, Prime Minister Oli mentioned that achieving the goals of compulsory and free basic education and free secondary education requires increasing investment through mutual coordination, cooperation, and coexistence among all three tiers of government. The Prime Minister has said in the message, "It is necessary to use the existing investment and resources effectively and creatively to create employment and ethical citizens and society through quality education." According to the Prime Minister, to achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, it is essential to make education inclusive and of high quality, from basic and technical education to higher education.
This includes developing all educational institutions into centers of excellence and making education a means to fulfill the national aspiration of a prosperous Nepal and happy Nepalis. "Since the education sector is one of the foundations of prosperity, all the actors of education need to be involved in the production of quality and employable educational manpower," said PM..
