Private higher secondary schools across the country remained closed on Monday as well due to a shutdown called by the All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), the student wing of the Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist.

The two-day strike saw thousands of 10+2 students deprived of their right to education.

The ANNISU-R has been hitting the streets, protesting and attacking 10+2 schools demanding that they change their foreign names, lower tuition fees and stop ‘gaudy’ publicity campaigns. The union has warned of stern actions if their demands are not met by today. Around 300,000 students are studying in 750 higher secondary schools across the country.

ANNISU-R cadres had vandalised KIST Nursing College in the Capital and the Chitwan-based Narayani Polytechnic Institute last Tuesday. On July 16, they also vandalised two private higher secondary schools in the Kathmandu Valley and torched a bus belonging to another to protest against what it called colleges with foreign names and exorbitant fee structures.

The ANNISU-R has said they were compelled to call for a strike after the Ministry of Education and the HSEB paid no heed to their demands forwarded to the Ministry on May 8 and the Board on July 13.

source: The Kathmandu Post,23 July 2012