KATHMANDU: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Raghuji Pant has said that the affiliated institutes of the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) should run nursing programme with the rise in the number of its students.

At the 208th Council meeting of the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training on Tuesday, he stressed the need to prepare a common proposal and submit it to the cabinet meeting for policy decision to collaborate with the public hospitals under the federal and provincial governments.

On the occasion, Minister for Health and Population, Pradeep Paudel noted coordination should be established with the hospitals under the province rather the hospitals under the federal government while stating there are some complexities in applied practice in health sector.

He also echoed the need of policy decision claiming the arrangement of permission of Certificate level and Bachelor’s level in one hospital for applied practice of nursing.

Also present on the occasion were secretaries of the ministries, vice chairperson of Medical Education Commission, member-secretary and other office-bearers of the CTEVT.

Commission’s Vice-chairperson Dr Anjani Kumar Jha spoke of the need of a general hospital rather than the specific one for the practice of nursing education.

Today’s meeting of the Council held discussion on the issues, including change in the names of educational institutes, change in ownership and shift in location, resumption of adjourned programmes and adjustment of institutes, allocation of authorities, completion of affiliation and approval process, among others.