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Rich-poor divide growing in Nepal
New Report E ducation at the school level in Nepal is free and all villages have now come under the plan to provide basic and primary education to all. The literacy rate in nepal is now 38 per cent of the total population though this does not reflect the growing number of schools and educational institutions in the Himalayan kingdom.A survey published in Nepal earlier this year has said that the growth in education in real terms in the country has been tardy.``The growth is hardly anything compared to the huge expenses and flow of funds into the education sector,'' the survey said. In fact, Tirtha Khania, a prominent educationist of Nepal, went as far as to say that the funds that have been pumped into the education system over the last decade has mostly been spent outdoors and not in the classes,'' giving rise to serious allegations which may go beyond just the lack of enterprise and planning. On the other hand, there has been a mushrooing of private schools throughout the country which only the rich can afford. With options being limited for the 4,000 villages in Nepal where education would normally and perforce mean government schools, this is leading to serious levels of disparity and increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. |
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