Kathmandu, Sept. 3 -- As the House of Representatives prepares to endorse the School Education Bill next week, various groups are pressuring the government and parliamentarians to revise it, each demanding to include mutually contradictory provisions.

While private school associations are already hitting the streets, seventeen student associations, including those affiliated to the ruling parties, on Tuesday, submitted a memorandum to acting Prime Minister Prakash Man Singh to revise the bill in a way that stops commercialisation in the education sector. Their demands are contradictory to those from the private schools that are against the provisions barriers to their interest.

The student associations, along with the Nepali Congress-af...