Why have teachers been neglected in Nepal forever till to date?

Why have teachers been neglected in Nepal forever till to date?

Teacher according to the Hindus philosophy is the profession of highest rank. But it's great surprise to say that most of the teachers in Nepal feel themselves as the second category of the profession.  They don't feel proud being teachers. They are mostly for the salary which is low paid and not enough to handle hand to mouth problem. The payment is only enough for miscellaneous expense. If a teacher has his own hut to leave, a cow for milk, a small plot of garden for spinach and vegetable and a small store of paddy. If not how a teacher can survive in the city. He/ she has to pay three part of his/her salary for rent especially in Kathmandu. To hire a flat for family, he/she has to pay nearly Rs20,000/ per month but a secondary level teacher gets Rs 30500/ peer month. Is it possible to survive with Rs 10500/ ?

Teachers have been neglected due to their own performance. They don't seem to be independent themselves. 18 categories of teachers have been appointed by the government here in Nepal in community schools but later the bureaucracy, political leaders, even the people in community and others blame them for not being able to give good performance especially in the SLC but now SEE examination. Teachers from 2036 have been in revolution demanding for permanency, increase in salary and payment equal to the bureaucracy and so on. But every time when the new government is formed, they don't seem to be ready to provide them facilities and the teachers who are teaching at community school do not believe in their own performance and send their kids to private school. One the one hand the government and the bureaucracy talk about the  up liftmen of the  community schools but when they have to appoint teachers and head teachers they forget everything and try to appoint their puppets. How can they change the schools ' performance? To change the school performance, teachers and head teachers must be the devoted and honest teachers by heart.  They can change. If not, it limits in slogan.

When the code of conduct is misinterpreted by the so called expert, what may be done by the general one who never runs after anyone else and tries to be independent himself or herself? Does anyone have answer of this question? So called leaders known as puppet can do nothing it's because they are vision less. They don't have their own mind. They are pumped by others. They do what the big brothers command them. How merciless they are. They seem to be feeble. They seem as if they are the henchmen of the political parties or other concerned one. There are many teachers' organizations but they are only for the leaders' sake. The central leaders feel proud being leaders and travel home and abroad and take snap and post on the face book wall and deliver big speech when they get the stage. They don't need to go to school and classes still remain as teachers. Have they ever asked themselves that that they are working for the teachers? If teachers' leaders and teachers organizations have educational ethics they can change the politics of nation only in a wink. But we cannot see that. Even they feel proud that what teachers are getting today is the outcome of the revolution. It seems as if it is true but it may not also it's because time it the strongest of all. Time also changes everything. Even own kitchen setting has been changed during a decade. Small wooden sitting planks have been replaced mostly by the chairs and tables. We hardly see the man with Dhoti while having lunch and dinner. Who have brought those changes?

Leaders may feel bad if I say that whatever condition that is seen in community is the output of the failure of so called teacher's leaders. Teachers' organizations were in existence in the fiftieth but they could not compel the government to result out of the teachers' exam taken in 2052 by which so many teachers returned home with empty hand.  They seemed as if they were voiceless for a decade. It's a great satire that if they said they did a lot for the teachers' sake. Yes they did. They went abroad and enjoyed visiting some countries and still feel proud of remembering the event they took part in. But what they saw is only in their mind but they did not try to change own yard. Instead they try their best to create their henchmen but not the capable one. They gave the responsibility mostly to the ones who obey them without question. Moreover primary and lower secondary class teachers are being the head teachers of secondary schools even in Kathmandu.  Having the fear in mind that they will be replaced by the other qualified teachers they are letting their institution backward not promoting to 11 and 12 classes thinking that their post of head teachers will be grabbed by others. Due to the reasons many schools even in urban areas have fewer students more teachers and the government pays no attention there.

The word teacher itself is holy and of the highest quality. Teachers' organization should not work as a sister organizations of any political parties.  There should be only one teachers' organization. If a teacher has a capability and wants to be the leader of teacher, he/she should get the chance. But now here in Nepal to be the leader, he/she must be a member of any sister organization of political parties. Then the leader of sister organization of political parties cannot be the voice of entire teacher, he /she becomes loyal to the concerned political party. This is regrettable to this field. It has to be ended for the sake of teachers and their profession. Teachers should raise voice only for their own benefits but should raise voice for the entire education system of nation. What a shame to say that those who achieve D get a chance to study education and they will be the future teacher. Why teachers organizations don't raise voice for it. Why teachers organization should not say right person must be in right place. Sometimes I regret myself while listening that a primary teacher or lower secondary teacher who was released from the head teacher of the secondary school, why the concerned political parties didn't save them. Wasn't it satire upon the education system? How so called leaders delivered speech without thinking.

If teachers of Nepal united and speak a single voice for professionalism, every problem that teachers are facing, the government will be compelled to address. Why teachers cannot say that they do not need pension but must increase in grown up allowance for all equally. Pension has been the burden for the entire nation. Bureaucracy, teachers, armies, police  and others who are working in government sectors get pension but other who are working in the field, constructing the road, or in industries do not get. How it can be resolved. It seems to be unfair to say from the teachers' point of view but if we are human and have human sympathy, we should be ready not to get pension in any field. If not why a farmer who is growing crops for others' livelihood, is not getting pension. He has to get pension when he is 65 years. Teachers should sow the seeds of knowledge everywhere and the given knowledge should be changed into skill. If the knowledge is changed into skill, there will be progress forever. A true teacher should teach his students that every profession is equally important. Work is worship should be the motto of every learner. If so, a barbar, a cobbler, a farmer, a labour , a mechanic and other don't get pension after working for years. Is it fair or not? Teachers should speak the voice of all but not only for their own profession. If they try to speak that way and motivate every student to do what they like can change our society in no time. Treacherous should be ended and encouragement and equality must flourish in every sector of human life. Then teachers will be like a Brahman, more or less the one who has supreme consciousness. A man of supreme consciousness is praised everywhere in the world. Let it prosper such concept in our yards too.