Incident Reports

Pratidin: Students Union and Police clash over padlocking of District Education Office

2017-04-28

Province 1, Jhapa, Bhadrapur

Police and student union clash when they tried to padlocked District Education Office accusing the office of being unable to control unusual hike in school fee and unlawful admission fee being carried out by schools in the district. It has been reported that the police manhandled the protesters and drove them away from the site. Three protesters got injured in the incident namely, NSU Central Committee member Santosh Upreti, Roshan Subedi and Ravi Subedi of ANNFSU and ANNFSU-R respectively. Students Unions have accused the District Education Office of doing corruption. शैक्षिक विकृति अन्त्यको माग गर्दै आन्दोलनमा उत्रिएका विद्यार्थी संगठनले जिल्ला शिक्षा कार्यालय झापामा तालाबन्दीको प्रयास गर्दा झडप भएको छ । निजी विद्यालयमा बढेको अनियन्त्रित शुल्क तथा भर्ना अभियानमा लिँदै आएको अवैध भर्ना शुल्क रोक्न नसकेको भन्दै शिक्षा कार्यालयमा तालाबन्दी गर्न गएका विद्यार्थीमाथि प्रहरीले दमन गर्दा झडप भएको हो । झडपमा परेर नेपाल विद्यार्थी संघका केन्द्रीय सदस्य सन्तोष उप्रेती,अनेरास्ववियुक रोशन सुवेदी र अखिल क्रान्तिकारीका सचिवालय सदस्य रवि बस्नेत घाइते भएका छन्। विद्यार्थीको टोलीले जिल्ला शिक्षा अधिकारीको कार्यकक्षमा तालाबन्दी प्रयास गरेपछि तैनाथ रहेका प्रहरीले विद्यार्थी नेता तथा कार्यकर्तालाई लछार-पछार पार्दै शिक्षा कार्यालयबाहिर भगाएको थियो। जिल्ला शिक्षा कार्यालय झापाले निजी विद्यालयको टाउको गन्दै कमिशन खाएको विद्यार्थी संगठनको आरोप छ ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Twosided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Group Clash
Secondary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Weapons None
Primary Cause Issues related to the quality of public services (health, education etc.)and access to these services
Secondary Cause Law and Order Violence
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Students
Actor 1 - Youth youth
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation Police
Actor 2 - Youth unknown
Total Injured 3
Local Newspaper - Jhapa

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