Kathmandu, June 9 -- The government's plan to conduct an intensive survey on out-of-school children targeted at finding its reasons has been delayed following reluctance from the local level to dispatch the records to the centre. With school education constitutionally coming under the jurisdiction of the local governments, there has been problems in coordination between the two tiers of government.

The Centre for Education and Human Resource Development under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on April 24 had asked all public schools across the country to carry out the survey in collaboration with their respective municipalities or rural municipalities, and keep the record at the local level and send a copy to the federal ...