Pvt schools in Nepal asks India to end blockade

An association of private schools in Nepal today appealed to the Indian envoy here requesting him to end the "unofficial blockade" on the country's southern border and the resultant fuel-crisis which is affecting the education of over seven million children.
A delegation led by the Private and Boarding Schools Organisation of Nepal (PABSON) President Lachhe Bahadur KC submitted the memorandum to Ambassador Ranjit Rae, requesting him to "end the unofficial blockade and ensure free supply of fuel and other essential goods" in the land-locked country.
More than 40 per cent of private schools in the Kathmandu Valley have remained shut even after the Dussera and Deepawali holidays due to the continuing fuel shortage.

In the memorandum, PABSON claimed that the ongoing fuel crisis resulting from the blockade is likely to deprive more than seven million children of their right to education.
The situation may promote anti-Indian feeling in the minds of children, a statement by the organisation said, adding that the current situation violates articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1990.
However, the Indian Ambassador replied that the present problem should be resolved politically, PABSON President said.

Meanwhile, the farmers in Kavrepalanchowk, handed over a packet of vegetables to Prime Minister K P Oli along with a memorandum letter saying that the farmers of the district could not send their products to the market due to the shortage of fuel in the wake of blockade by India.

A team led by Prem Bahadur Timalsina, president of Kavre Farmers' Association handed over the vegetable packet to Arjun Kumar Sharma, Chief District Officer of Kavre, for sending the vegetables to the Prime Minister's office in Kathmandu.
Hundreds of trucks filled with essential supplies have been stranded in Raxaul, India, the main trading point between the two countries, for weeks due to the blockade.
The Indian-origin Madhesi people have enforced a blockade in the southern plains of Terai, demanding more representation and separation of the plains from hilly areas under the newly-enacted Constitution.