Rasali’s Wrath:

I had gone through this myself along with five other classmates of mine in Rambha High School, Tanhoon in Palpa district way back in Kartik 2026 B.S. (1970). It was in the High School Sent Party in which we the Grade IX Class were to bid the farewell to outgoig Grade X class. School teachers, except one rational thinking human, ganged up with the rest of other (so called high) caste students in our class to disallow six of us to be part of a school’s party cooking team. I never thought, those classmates to be any higher than myself. Being a top boy in the class, all of my classmates were to bow their heads in front of me, especially when it came to coaching them some Maths or English. Being also the duly elected class monitor, it was my sole responsibility to lead the organization and management of the party including shopping, cooking and serving food; all others were to contribute to the agreed plan to make it a grand success. But, it was the gang of teachers led by no other than the Head Master of the High School, a MA in Special English, who orchastrated a drama to sideline the six of us conveniently; but due to our vehement opposition, it turned out to be a voilent physical fight ending totally our participation in the party. But, this happened more than 36 years ago, and now we are in the 21st century!

How can a teacher of a government run school dare discriminate students and practice a disgusting social crime such as caste discrimination and untouchability right at the premises of a PUBLIC school even now? All students from our communities must rise and oppose what these criminal teachers are preaching and practicing even today. Our communities must blacklist these social criminals as casteists/racists so that they will have to pay the price of their crime tag for life and beyond. Their offsprings will know what kind of disgraceful characters they possess.

We must put high pressure on the present government to dismiss those discriminating teachers of Parbat from their respective jobs immediately for their wrong doing in their duties.

Press release by Dalit NGO Federation (DNF):

DNF condemns the incident of untouchability practice in an educational instutution that happened in a School of Parbat district, and has demanded stern action against the culprit teachers. The DNF Press Release (in Nepali version) follows:

मितिः २०६३ चैत्र २६

प्रेस विज्ञप्ती

पर्वत जिल्ला माझफांट गाविसस्थित फड्केढुंगा निम्न माध्यमिक विद्यालयमा शैक्षिक शत्र २०६३/०६४ को अन्तिम परिक्षाको मति २०६३ चैत्र २५ गते भएको पाकशिक्षा विषयको परिक्षामा गरिएको छुवाछूतको घटना प्रति यस दलित गैरसरकारी संस्था महासंघको ध्यान आकर्षा भएको छ विद्यालयको परिक्षामा दलित विद्यार्थी भएकै कारण परीक्षामा सामेल नगरी अन्य काम अराएको र माथिल्ला जातीलाई मात्र पकाउन लगाईएकोमा त्यहांका दलित विद्यार्थीले त्यसको विरोध गरेको थिए । शिक्षा मार्गदर्शन दिने ठांउमा नै त्यस किसिमको विभेदकारी मार्गदर्शन दिन्छन भने भोलीको नेपालले कस्तो परिवर्तन गर्ला - एक सच्चा गुरुले सच्चा ज्ञान सिकाउनु पर्नेमा विभेदकारी ज्ञान र कुरा सिकाउछ भने त्यस्ता गुरुबाट निर्देशित विद्यार्थीहरु कस्ता होला र नेपाली समाजले तिनीहरुबाट के आशा राख्ने- यस्तो यो संवेदनशिल विषयमा छिटो भन्दा छिटो दोषीलाई कार्वाही गर्न र पिडितलाई क्षतिपर्ूर्ति दिलाउन नेपाल सरकार साथै सम्बन्धित जिल्ला शिक्षा कार्यालय लगायत सरोकारवाला सबै पक्षमा यस महासंघको जोडदार माग गर्दछ ।

तीर्थ बर्मा
कार्यकारी निर्देशक
दतिल गैरसरकारी संस्था महासंघ
कमलपोखरी, काठमाडौं ।
Dalit NGO Federation (DNF)
Kamalpokhari, Lohotse Marg, HN-70,
Phone: +0977-01-4413589/17, 2003124
Email: dnf@dnfnepal.org, Web: www.dnfnepal.org

Press release by Nepal Independent Dalit Student Organization (NIDSO):

Nepal Independent Dalit Student Organization (NIDSO) realesed a press statement (see below) against discrimination to the Dalit students in a school in Parbat. The subject specialist teachers of a lower secondary school in Parbat responsible for Food Lab course didn’t allow Dalit Students to take part in the Home/Food Science Practical Exam, practicing untouchability in the classroom in the government run school. Students were required to cook different food items in the practical exam of Home Science as a vocational subject. The so-called upper caste tribes did not accept food cooked by Dalits.

Please see the press statement below (in Nepali version):

Report by:

Ram Nepali

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