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Kathmandu, August 16: Kumar Prasad Dahal, Director General of the Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection, has been transferred to the National Inclusion Commission, who sought to implement MRP to stop the high fees charged by schools and to prevent revenue evasion. Dahal’s transfer has been done as an undeclared action to stop the high fees being charged by the school and to make MRP mandatory. He has been in the Department for five months.
Sources claim that Director General Dahal has been transferred to the National Inclusion Commission in an attempt to regulate and process the Ullens School belonging to Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba. Dahal had sought to regulate the fee system of schools, including Ullens, which was collecting high fees. According to Section 6 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2075, the businessmen running private schools were pressuring the government to reconsider the decision after the Department strictly implemented the MRP.

The Department of Commercial Supplies and Consumer Protection under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies said that MRP was implemented to ensure transparency and consumer rights in the market. This was initiated by Dahal. “The MRP system controls irregularities in the market, bringing tax evaders and evaders under the ambit of law,” he had said.
Dahal’s transfer came as the director general was preparing to fine the schools, including A-Level, International Baccalaureate (IB), which did not take permission and did not fix fees and approval from the concerned body (local government).
Pressure was mounting on the transfer of Director General Dahal after the Department sought to regulate the details of the Ullense School and Nightingale School, Youth and Sports Minister, Tejulal Chowdhury and other privately running schools.  

Ullens, Nightingale, Little Angels, United, Rato Bangla, Pathsala, Machhapuchchhre World School, Millsberry, Bhaktapur Modern, Premier International, Brihaspati, Rai School, Roseword, Galaxy, Sifal School, Alok Vidyashram, Kathmandu Euro School, Kavya, KMC, Nisarga Vatika, Valley View, Nobel Academy, Creative Waiting Education, DAV, Swastishree Gurukul, Genius School were monitored and asked to review fees by Dahal.
Preparations were underway to take action to schools, which were denying to respond the instruction by the Dahal-led team. These schools were found to have charged 10 times more than the prescribed fee, conducted foreign programs without the permission of the government, did not register with government bodies, did not pay taxes, did not provide services to students according to the fees collected from them, cheated parents in the name of registration and strike, and made misleading advertisements.
People’s News Monitoring Service.