Nepal thinks of television to teach blocking the south … – Terra Colombia

The Government of Nepal is considering using television and radio for students of primary and secondary classes can continue after more than two months of protests that paralyzed kept southern country and a border blockade that accuses Kathmandu India.

“We are thinking about various ways to take lessons through the media. While radio can be used for lectures, will rely on television for practical issues,” the spokesman told Efe the Ministry of Education, Hari Lamsal.

The demonstrations have occurred throughout the whole year in the south against the new Constitution, finally approved in late September, a charter with an administrative division rejected the Madhesi minority Terai region.

This minority intensified two months ago the protests that have left more than fifty dead.

In addition, the country remains locked in all its borders with India, and suffers an acute shortage of fuel, medicines and commodities since then, a situation that the Government of Kathmandu accuses India for allegedly not conform to the new Nepalese Constitution.

According to Unicef ​​data in the nine districts of the Terai region bordering India, there are about 1.6 million students in preschool, primary and secondary.

The UN agency has warned that in the last six months schools have been open just five days as against 122 days stipulated.

Lamsal said the government is in talks with schools in the region to revive the classes.

The president of the Organization Tips and Private Schools of Nepal (PABSON), Lachhe Bahadur KC, was unconvinced of the measure announced by the government since classes through the media “can not be interactive. ”

“The government should accelerate talks with the protesters and end the blockade. Teach in the media will not help much,” he told Efe, to ensure that the situation is “alarming” because They have lost over 100 days on average in schools.

Nepal through an extreme situation that the new Government of Sharma Oli, elected in early October, is channeling with calls for dialogue and the promise of a constitutional amendment, as the country continues to lack basic supplies as medicines, vaccines, food and fuel.

That context, coupled with the earthquake in April that left nearly 9,000 dead, and show revenues of 10,000 million loss this year, the private sector, one of the world’s poorest countries.