Kathmandu, April 24 -- Even as a parliamentary committee has expedited the process to finalise the School Education Bill, there are slim chances of its endorsement before May first week-without which teachers are refusing to return to their work.

CPN-UML's Chhabilal Bishwakarma-led sub-panel under the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives has been meeting regularly to finalise the bill for the past four weeks.

By Wednesday, it had finalised around 115 out of the 163 sections of the bill. "We have hours of discussions every day. Finding consensus on complex provisions is a tough task," Dig Bahadur Limbu, a member of the panel, told the Post. "May 5 is our deadline, but we are trying to giv...