Kathmandu, April 6 -- Ignoring the government's repetitive calls for dialogue, thousands of teachers have continued hitting the streets demanding a new School Education Act.

The teachers, united under the banner of Teachers' Federation Nepal, started the mass show on Wednesday. The move came after President Ramchandra Paudel, on government recommendation, prorogued the federal parliament session on Tuesday without endorsing the school education bill that has been pending in a House committee for over a year and a half. The Ministry of Education invited the federation to dialogue on the first day of the protest.

But the federation refused to sit for talks, arguing there was no point in talking as it only wanted the new Act, including the...