Nepal, Aug. 26 -- Musikot Municipality in Gulmi issued a vacancy announcement for a secondary-level mathematics teacher under the federal grant programme not once or twice but 15 times. Each call went unanswered. The education branch of the municipality has also been trying for a year and a half to hire English and science teachers, but the posts remain vacant hitherto.

"After repeatedly issuing advertisements without applicants, we stopped publishing notices altogether," said Shyam Thapa, principal of the Musikot Secondary School in ward 4 of the municipality. "We are forced to run higher classes with lower secondary teachers, who already have no free periods. It has made teaching extremely difficult," Thapa expressed his frustrations....