Kathmandu, June 23 -- With hardly a week before the deadline to endorse the School Education Bill, it is still unclear when the Education, Health and Information Committee of the House of Representatives will finalise it for tabling in Parliament.

On April 30, chief whips of the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML inked a deal with the Nepal Teachers Federation to get the bill endorsed from the lower house by June 29. The commitment to endorsing the bill was the reason the teachers ended their month-long protest.

However, the House committee has yet to finalise the bill, and it is still unclear when the meeting will be called. "I am holding consultations. The date for the next meeting will be finalised by tomorrow [Monday]," Ammar Bahadur T...