National Women Commission urges government to run classes on VAW

March 19, Kathmandu: The National Women Commission has urged the government to run additional classes against violence against women in schools every week.

At a program organized by the Society of Education Journalists in collaboration with Volunteer Service Overseas Nepal and Aasaman Nepal, on Thursday, National Women Commission member Bidya Sinha said that a team of the NWC had urged Minister for Education, Science, and Technology for the same.

She said that they had requested the Minister to include the subject in the school-level curriculum.

Similarly,Spokesperson at the Ministry, Deepak Sharma, said that the government had already brought a master plan of the concept of safer school concept and it would be implemented by incorporating the obstacles created by COCID-19.

He shared that the schools had been asked to regularly address the complaints of students as well as create an environment not to allow occur any violent activities.