Kathmandu, March 6 -- Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli recently announced that B&C Medical College in Birtamod, Jhapa, will soon get affiliation from Kathmandu University.

Oli's announcement came just a week after the senate meeting of the university, where Education Minister Krishna Gopal Shrestha had pushed the proposal of granting affiliation to the medical college.

Even though the issue B&C affiliation was not on the agenda of the February 24 senate meeting, Minister Shrestha had reportedly pushed the proposal just about the meeting was about to conclude.

The senate meeting ended without taking any decision on the matter. But when the meeting's minute was released two days later, Bed Mani Dahal, a senate member, said it was mentioned i...