27th August 2022, Kathmandu
Chhatrakot Rural Municipality of Gulmi has decided to ban mobile phones in schools.
In the village education committee meeting of the rural municipality, Ramprasad Pandey, chairman of the rural municipality, said that mobile phones are prohibited in schools. Pandey said that this decision was made to make the study and teaching more effective.
Pandey said that teachers and students use Facebook in the classroom, and mobile phones are banned in the school because it was found during the monitoring that the sounds of the mobile phones cause discomfort in the study and teaching.
Pandey said that to implement the decision to ban mobile phones in schools, effective monitoring will be done and those who do not implement the decision will be punished.
The rural municipality has made plans to provide quality education and said that the rural municipality will prioritize the education sector.
There are 48 community schools within the rural municipality and 52 schools including 4 institutional schools, according to the rural municipality.
There are 557 community schools and 54 institutional schools in the Gulmi district. There are about 68,000 students in the district, said Loknath Marasini, Head of Education Development and Coordination Unit, Gulmi.