Committee Formed to Celebrate 8th National Library Day 

A main organisation committee has been formed in the chairmanship of Narayan Gopal Malego, secretary of the Ministry of Education, to celebrate the 8th National Library Day on Bhadra 15 (August 31st). Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha, chief at the Tribhuwan University’s Central Department of Library and Information Science, has been appointed as Vice-chairman of the committee. The National Library Day has been celebrated annually for the last 7 years to increase awareness about libraries. The committee has decided to celebrate this year’s library day as a weeklong celebration. 

 

BBA Programmes to have 4th Year 

The Ministry of Education has directed colleges with Indian university affiliation offering BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) programmes to extend the programme to 4 years. As the BBA programmes offered in Tribhuwan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU) are of 4 years, the ministry has directed colleges with Indian university affiliations to change their programmes to 4-year-programmes too. This step has been taken to maintain the equivalence among students from Nepali universities and Indian universities. 

 

PF for Community Schools’ Staff 

Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity. The Ministry of Education has made ‘service laws’ according to which staffs who have served for 5-10 years will get half a month’s salary as gratuity annually. Those who have served for 10-15 years will get a month’s salary as gratuity and persons who have served for more than 15 years will get a month and a half’s worth of salary as gratuity annually. The law has been made by the Ministry of Education, guaranteeing services and facilities for community school staffs in accordance with the order of the Supreme Court. 

 

Private Schools not to Increase Staff Salary 

Though the government increased the salary of government schools’ staffs this fiscal year, private schools have decided not to follow suit. According to the Education Regulation, there is a provision to increase the salary every educational year, not the fiscal year. There is a clear provision in the ‘Organisational Schools Directory’ released by the government that salaries are increased only in the start of the educational year and facilities and services too are fixed by that time. “Salaries cannot be increased in the middle of the educational year,” says chairman of PABSON, Dr Babu Ram Pokharel. 

 

A New HR Services Enterprise 

A new HR service providing company named ‘Bizsupport’ has been opened with the purpose to serve the wider arena of business and economy by inspiring MBA students to pursue Human Resource Management as their career. Bizsupport is headed by a human resources management practitioner with 22 plus years experience as Head of Human Resources in various organizations like hotels, MNCs, banks etc. Bizsupport tries to deliver its services distinctively from others in terms of quality and efficiency in order to add value to business. It provides services like business process outsourcing, representation direct marketing, HR audit, recruitment executive search, training and development, competency mapping, event management, HR systems, organizational development and PMS (Performance Managanement Systems).