The Ministry of Education has arrears amounting to Rs 20 billion, which is about one-third of the total education budget for the fiscal 2011/12. 

Most of government schools of mid-western region of the country have been involved in about financial irregularity worth Rs. 30 millions while purchasing textbooks through the government provided budget.

Making a mockery of its provision, Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB)’s regional contact office in Biratnagar is distributing mark sheets of Grade XI charging Rs 250 per mark sheet.

It has come to light that seven regional offices of Higher Secondary Education Board have embezzled around Rs 9.4 million the last fiscal. Among them, Biratnagar regional office expenditure exceeded the budget ceiling by Rs 5.956 million, without approval.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has summoned employees and top officials of Purvanchal University to probe their involvement in various irregularities.

Outgoing Bara District Education Officer Rambinaya Singh today accused Sivachandra Kusawaha, a Constituent Assembly member representing the UCPN-Maoist, of seeking a bribe of five lakh rupees.

According to the corruption perception index 2011 of Transparency International; Nepal is the second most corrupt country in South Asia after Afghanistan.

The school, with infrastructure worth billions of rupees, was established by the British government in 1972. Since 1994, the Government of Nepal is looking after the institution that has glorious past.

Nearly Rs six billion has accumulated because of financial indiscipline in the school education sector. DoE is collecting proof of expenditure to prove they were legitimate spending

District Education Office, Siraha has distributed salary for five teachers, by flouting the Education Service Act and Regulation. The teacher of Naudega Primary School, Majhaura-2 had closed down the school and had stayed back at their homes for the past four months.