The joint students' organisations have announced protest programmes against the fee hike at private schools.

The meeting of the organisations held at the office of All Nepal National Free Students' Unions on Monday made public the decision of protests as picketing and padlocking the District Education Offices, said ANNFSU Chairperson Nabina Lama.

She added that they were compelled to launch protest because the government was ignoring the fee hike at private schools which has hit hard the parents. "We had given three days' deadline for the government to lift the fee hike decision, but in vain," she said. All District Education Offices would be picketed across the country on Wednesday, while the account and administrative sections of the private schools would be padlocked on Thursday and the organizations of private schools in the central and district levels would be padlocked on Friday.

The meeting was attended by leaders of various students' groups- Nain Singh Mahar, DB Saud, Ghana Shyam Mishra, Niraj Labaju, Dipendra Chalaune, and Bimal Pokhrel. RSS