A meeting of 11 student unions held today in the office of CPN-UML-aligned All Nepal National Free Students Union decided to visit the NOC to submit a memo, demanding adjustment of petroleum prices

1. Adjust fuel prices, demand students
Eleven student unions, including sister wings of the ruling political parties, today demanded that
the government and Nepal Oil Corporation adjust the prices of petroleum products on a par with
international market prices, and subsequently reduce fares in public transportation and prices of
daily commodities.
A meeting of 11 student unions held today in the office of CPN-UML-aligned All Nepal
National Free Students Union decided to visit the NOC to submit a memo, demanding
adjustment of petroleum prices.
According to UP Lamichhane, Spokesperson, Nepali Congress-aligned Nepal Students Union,
the student bodies have asked the state-owned oil monopoly to reduce the prices of petroleum
products — petrol, diesel and cooking gas. The student unions have accused the NOC of failing
to appropriately review and adjust the prices in the domestic market despite the decrease in
prices of petroleum prices in the international market.
They also picketed the NOC’s central office in Babar Mahal.
The student organisations, in their meeting, also urged the Constituent Assembly to promulgate
the new constitution by the January 22 deadline.
The meeting also decided to submit a memo to Tribhuvan University on December 19 for
holding Free Students Union elections and ensuring quality education and maintaining
systematic academic calendar in semester system.
All the unions have agreed to take up the nationwide Mechi-Mahakali campaign, launched by
ANNFSU, to exert pressure on the CA to promulgate the new constitution on time, the ANNFSU
said in a statement.
They will jointly submit more than one million signatures, collected by ANNFSU across the
country, to CA Chairman Subas Nembang tomorrow.
They also decided to lobby for justice to Puja Bohora, a rape victim, and demanded stern law
against such crimes.
They condemned the terrorist attack in a school in Peshawar, of Pakistan by the Pakistani
Taliban yesterday where at least 141 people, most of them children, were killed.
Similarly, they are also going to launch a clean-up campaign in campuses every first Friday of
the month. The students are jointly launching the campaign starting this Friday by cleaning
Ratna Rajya Campus.
The meeting also expressed solidarity to ‘Awareness Campaign against Drug Addiction’
launched by the ANNFSU (Sixth).