Nepal, May 19 -- Teachers have opposed a provision labeled as "consensus" in the School Education Bill report that the parliamentary subcommittee submitted to the Education, Health, and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives on Sunday.

Ram Prasad Dhakal, Deputy General Secretary of the Nepal Teachers' Federation (NTF), rejected the subcommittee's claim of consensus in the report and expressed the federation's dissatisfaction.

He firmly stated that teachers would never accept any proposal in the bill that would cost them their jobs.

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