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And that is the trouble with Nepal’s politicians. They are more interested in squabbles over power than in solving problems. Poverty has sent millions of Nepalis abroad for work. The state has failed utterly to rebuild after an earthquake last year devastated mountain villages, killing 8,000 and leaving millions homeless. A new constitution has yet to be fairly implemented more than ten months after it was passed.
Some hope Mr Dahal (pictured, left, with Mr Oli) will bring stability after his predecessor’s brief but erratic rule. After all, he has experience in governing: when the Maoists laid down arms in 2006 and struck a deal with the establishment, they handily won elections for a constituent assembly under Mr Dahal’s charismatic leadership. The assembly promptly abolished the monarchy. Nepal’s diverse ethnic groups each enjoyed a proportional say in drafting a new constitution. It seemed that a new order might be taking root.
Yet the guerrillas soon found parliament trickier terrain than the bush they had left. Mr Dahal lasted just nine months. India, the powerful southern neighbour, had opposed his forces during the civil war and afterwards did its utmost behind the scenes to see him gone. Mr Dahal resigned after an army chief he had sacked was reinstated at India’s behest. Meanwhile the old order, drawn from the elite castes, regrouped and won a majority in a second constituent assembly, elected in 2013.
The constitution unexpectedly passed last September by the main parties, including the Maoists, contained a raft of retrograde provisions. The most divisive of these drew state boundaries so as to ensure that power would stay with the elites. Bloody demonstrations attended its promulgation. In particular, the marginalised Tharu and Madhesi ethnic groups who live in the populous, lowland Terai region, which runs along Nepal’s long southern border, felt the constitution gave them less representation than they had been promised. The Madhesi have strong ties with kin in northern India. With tacit Indian support, they occupied key border crossings and blockaded fuel supplies to their landlocked country.
In response, Mr Oli tilted towards China, whose swift delivery of three tankers’ worth of petrol was supposed to herald a new era. Yet the supplies dried up as the tyranny of geography asserted itself: Chinese roads reaching Nepal through remote Tibet are few and appalling. The China play was an empty one. And in time the fuel supplies from India resumed.
Under the deal that brought him back to power, Mr Dahal will oversee local elections and then hand the reins to the leader of the Nepali Congress, Sher Bahadur Deuba (long a favourite in India). Both Mr Dahal and Mr Deuba have promised to amend the constitution to deal with the issue of state boundaries—and they may yet fail to deliver. That would guarantee further identity-driven instability.
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to look into war crimes, and another commission to investigate disappearances, have together received more than 50,000 complaints. After the constitutional amendment, pursuing these cases might be the next best thing the new government can do to put the war years behind it.
Meanwhile other pressing matters are at play. Faster reconstruction is urgently needed, to spare earthquake victims another winter in tin shacks. As it is, the earthquake has sent predictions for economic growth in 2016 tumbling as low as 1.5%. It is heartening that the Maoists have shed their revolutionary mantle and speak of fostering growth to rival China’s or India’s. But quite how Mr Dahal intends to deliver such an economic boost remains murky, to say the least
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Tribhuvan University (TU) is the first national institution of higher education in Nepal. It was established in 1959 A.D. The Central Administrative Office and the Central Campus of the university are located on the north eastern facade of Kirtipur, an ancient and small town located five kilometers away from Kathmandu city centre. There are 38 central departments and 4 research centres in TU, and out of them 31 departments and 3 research centres are located at Kirtipur. The university at Kirtipur is spread over an area of 154.77 hectares (3042-5-2 ropanis).
After the second democratic movement of 2006, the Prime Minister of Nepal is the ceremonial chief, the Chancellor of the University, whereas the Minister of Education is the Pro-Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor is the Chief Executive of the university. He is assisted by the Rector in academic programmes and the Registrar in financial management and general administration.
Tribhuvan University is a non-profit making autonomous institution funded by the Government of Nepal. On January 8, 2013, the government of Nepal has principally agreed to declare Tribhuvan University as the Central University.
Main objectives of TU
The university was established with the following objectives:
To prepare capable human resources required for the overall development of Nepal
To impart standard higher education
To protect and develop national culture and tradition
To involve in extensive, empirical and timely creation of knowledge and research in the fields of arts, science, technology and vocation
TU Senate
It is the supreme decision-making body on policies, budget, and rules and regulations for running the university. It consists of 52 members.
Councils of TU
There are 4 councils constituted as major decision-making bodies of the university.
Executive Council
Executing the decisions of the University Assembly, making decisions on grants, giving affiliation to private campuses, and appointing the university officials are its major functions. It consists of 7 members.
Academic Council
The academic council makes decisions on educational policies and practices regarding curricula, teaching, examinations and research and comprises of 50 members.
Research Coordination Council
It formulates policies on TU research activities, approves guidelines for researchers and coordinates the functions of university level research organizations. The Research Division is the secretariat of the council. The council consist of 27 members.
Planning Council
The planning council performs an advisory role of preparing short and long-term plans, developing annual programmes and evaluating implementation programmes. It consists of 29 members.
Academic Programmes
In the 55th year of its establishment, the university family remains committed and dedicated to making the university a source and centre of quality education, setting up a culture of learning in the country and promoting the notion of national and global peace and harmony. This year, the Tribhuvan university has made a decision to start semester system at the Central Departments. All the departments, except the Central Department of Law, have already started first semester classes. This systemic change has been introduced to enforce an academic calendar, to make students full time students dedicated to their studies, to reduce financial burden on students and their parents by making the students complete the degree in time, to respond to the growing concern of the stakeholders about enhancing the academic quality of university education through academic rigour, to revitalize the fame, popularity, credibility and contribution of the university as the oldest centre of higher learning and the central and leading university of Nepal.
From the forthcoming academic session, the university will extend the semester system outside the central departments. This is really going to prove a daunting task for such a large university spread all over the country. However, if the nation prioritizes education and gives desirable financial support to the university, TU will definitely move ahead on the path of achieving academic excellence and will be able to supply capable manpower to meet the growing challenges of the time.
Since its inception, TU, the state owned university, has expanded its programes indifferent disciplines. There are 5 technical institutes and 4 general faculties. TU offers proficiency certificate level courses only in nursing. It has a wide range of course offerings in Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. TU offers M. Phil. and phd. degree in different disciplines both at the Technical Institutes and Faculties.
TU ran its programes only through its constituent campuses prior to 1980. As the number of the students willing to acquire higher education was increasing day by day, it was not possible for the university to accommodate all the students in the constituent campuses. This situation led to the establishment of colleges in the private sector. From 1979 –80, TU started providing affiliation to private colleges to conduct various programes at different levels. One thousand fifty three (1053) private colleges spread all over the country have so far received affiliations
from TU.
In the current academic session (2014-2015) altogether 4,05,341 students have been enrolled at various levels of TU academic Programmers. 1,48,141 (36.55%) students study in its 60 constituent campuses including 38 central departments, while 2,57,200 (63.45%) students study in 1053 affiliated colleges. It clearly reveals that affiliated colleges do have more students than the constituent campuses.
TU has 7966 teaching faculty and 7230 non-teaching staff including the support staff in its constituent campuses. The total number of employees is 15196 including 124 new posts of the Manmohan Cardiothorasic Centre.
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