12th Strike

DEMANDS

1. Passage of Medical Education Act immediately in line with the Mathema taskforce report and our suggestions.
2. Immediately scrap Kathmandu University’s decision to charge fees millions of rupees more than government-set structure and implement the government-set fee of Rs 3.85 million for MBBS inside the Kathmandu Valley and Rs 42.45 million outside the Valley and Rs 19.32 million for BDS. Immediately sack KU’s dean Rajendra Koju and vice chancellor Ram Kantha Makaju for colluding with the mafia and committing financial irregularities. Fix Rs 22.5 million as the fee for MD/MS courses at private medical colleges under Tribhuvan University. Sack TU officials involved in fixing high fees for medical education and granting permissions to colleges lacking minimum requirements and start action against them. Restore the authorities of the IOM that were snatched away by the TU.
3. Initiate investigation against Gopal Khadka, the sacked chief of Nepal Oil Corporation, and recover the billions of rupees embezzled by him. Sack all other officials who colluded with Khadka and engaged in corruption and take action against them. And sack all the officials of various public entities who were proven to have committed corruption but have not faced action, and initiate action against them.
4. Allocate funds and make other arrangements for immediately starting teaching and learning activities at Karnali Academy of Health Sciences. Expedite work to set up government-funded medical colleges in Kailali, Dang, Doti-Dadeldhura, Dhanusha-Mahottari, Udayapur, and Panchthar-Ilam among other places.

12^th hunger strike September 25-27, 2017), due to Dashain holidays hunger strike was called off on the third day and resumed from October 5, 2017