Kathmandu, March 19 -- In a tussle with the federal government, the Madhesh Province has announced that it will not participate in any process of the Secondary Education Examination (SEE), which starts Thursday.

Last week, the Madhesh provincial government demanded that the superintendents of SEE centres be selected through a lottery system. It wanted the respective district examination coordination committees to pick the chiefs of examination centres by drawing lots and had communicated the same.

However, the coordination committees, following directives from the National Examination Board, picked the principals of the respective schools where the examination centre has been set as superintendents. As a result, the Madhesh Province dec...