Education Ministry Decides to Prosecute Consultancies Operating Without Registration

Kathmandu. It has been decided to prosecute consultancies that have started educational counseling services and sent students abroad without completing the registration process. As per the decision of the Minister of Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, the police have started an investigation against such consultancies.

On May 1, the police raided 195 such offices in the Kathmandu Valley on charges of fraud in the name of sending students abroad by consultancies and educational counseling companies. The police had arrested 68 consultancy operators and managers. Among them, 15 consultancies that were in the registration process were kept on bail by the police, and the Ministry of Education and Sports was informed about it.

With the decision at the ministerial level of education to take action against companies that started work before completing the registration process, 18 more people have been arrested. SSP Santosh Khadka of the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office told Ratopati that 18 people, including the operators and managers of 15 consultancies, were arrested on Wednesday.

SSP Khadka informed that the arrested individuals have been sent to the District Police Complex Kathmandu for investigation and prosecution under the Education Act.

The police are also investigating other consultancies that are in the registration process.