6th Strike

DEMANDS

1. Form Health Profession Education Commission to (a) Formulate Health Profession Policy; (b) Will not renew LoI of Medical Nursing and Dental colleges inside Kathmandu Valley; (c) Gradually decrease the MBBS seats to 135 then 115 and 100 in next three years; (d) Set Rs 3.5 million fee ceiling for MBBS course; (e) Foreigners should also sit for common entrance examination. For Nepali students they should mandatorily sit for the common entrance before obtaining No Objection Letter and Eligibility Certificate from Ministry of Education and Nepal Medical Council
2. Form a legal commission to probe abuse of authority in KU and TU
3. Form a ‘search’ committee without political representation to appoint office bearers in universities and other health councils.
4. Make the Post-Graduate education free and implement it from this session
5. Take action against owners of Janaki Medical College and properly manage students
6. Government medical college should have 50 percent free seats that should be eventually increased up to 75 percent
7. The government should probe into the extended programme of Dev Daha and Birat Medical College and take action against KU officials.
8. Halt the process of establishing Medical University
9. The ratio of government to private medical colleges should be at least at 1:3
10. Dispatch a letter to KU stating the representation of professors in KU senate.
11. All the above mentioned agreements will remain accordingly, while the rest will be implemented from the action plan endorsed by the Cabinet