Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Ready to Implement Local Language Textbook in Schools:
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is going to implement basic local textbooks from the third week of this month. The KMC Education Department has started preparations for the implementation as per the decision of the 19th executive meeting of KMC held in September 2020 to implement local language books from this academic session.
Due to the coronavirus, the academic session will be conducted till next May. For the implementation, KMC has already sent local textbooks to the schools and also started sending teachers. According to Ram Prasad Subedi, Chief of the Education Department, the KMC is conducting training for private school teachers to teach the local textbooks.
Under Part 3, Fundamental Rights, Article 32, Clauses (2) and (3) of the Constitution of Nepal, provision has been made for one subject to be studied/taught in the community and institutional schools under its jurisdiction from every local level of the country. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has prepared this textbook under the same arrangement.
As Kathmandu is a predominantly Newar place and citizens of all 77 districts live here, this kind, of course, has been prepared with the objective of informing everyone about the climate, culture, and traditions of the district.
Dr. Chunda Bajracharya, a senior cultural expert who has been participating in the curriculum from the beginning, says that the textbook contains only lessons related to various processions, festivals, stone fountains, parties, sattals, people, etc. in the Kathmandu metropolis.
Similarly, Newar's public life, art, food, festivals, language, script, traditional sports are included. "In order to make it easier for the children to learn, 100 marks out of 100 marks will be given in practice classes from class 1 to 3.
There will be 75 marks for practice and 25 marks for theory in classes 4 and 5, ”said Subedi, head of the KMC education department; "In classes 6, 7, and 8, 50 marks will be given for practical and 50 marks for theoretical reading."
