Two teachers from Tribhuvan University were injured during scuffles with police on 22 May 2017. Narendra Bhandari, the general secretary of the Nepal Part-Time Teachers’ Association (NPTTA), and Mandira Sayami, a zoology teacher at the Trichandra Campus, were among a group of 175 protesting teachers who had tried to enter a restricted area near the Prime Minister’s residence.
It was the fourth day of a protest staged to press home their demand for the implementation of an agreement signed between the government, the university and the union which should have ensured that part-time teachers were hired on monthly contracts rather than on a daily basis. The agreement had been signed eight years earlier, yet neither the government nor Tribhuvan University had taken any initiatives to address the demands of more than 1,200 part-time teachers, said the NPTTA. They were paid less and taxed more than permanent teachers.
The NPTTA reported that Narendra Bhandari was seriously injured when police used force to prevent the protestors entering the prohibited zone.
