Butwal: Nursing Colleges in Rupandehi are found operational against the standards stipulated by the Nursing Council and Council of Technical Education and Vocational Training (CETVT).

Established after taking approval for the purpose of producing technical human resource in health sector, the colleges have also been charging high fee to students in a unitary manner.


Ironically, there are no subject faculty, laboratory and library in almost all colleges here.

In addition, the colleges here have charged Rs. 800,000 to a student for three-year certificate course.

The existing fee structure of the colleges is maximum expensive than the fee that of other similar institutions of the country, complained students.

Every nursing college has to make necessary arrangement of hospital and lab to provide with on the job training (OJT) to its students, according to the Nursing Council and CTEVT.

But, most of the nursing colleges here have been doing their business by showing the only government hospital in Butwal for OJT to students.

More than half dozen nursing colleges of the region have obtained permission letter from the Lumbini Hospital to conduct OJT and practical sessions of the courses they are offering.

Among the technical institutions operating classes against the stipulated standards and norms are Snajeevani Nursing College, Rambadevi Medical Sciences, Mayadevi Technical College, Deurali Janata Technical Education Centre, Lumbini Nursing College and Pratima Nima Health Science Bhairahawa.

source: republica, 15 september 2011