Overview
- The Balen Shah cabinet unveiled a 100-point plan at its first meeting that orders party-linked student unions off campuses and gives 90 days to set up non-partisan student councils.
- The government barred civil servants and teachers from party membership and moved to dismantle partisan trade unions inside state offices.
- Education changes include dropping internal exams through Grade 5 in favor of alternative assessments, scrapping citizenship checks for undergraduate entry, enforcing fixed result calendars, and directing foreign-named schools to adopt Nepali names this year.
- Student leaders, academics and activists criticized the bans, saying they restrict the right to organize and could strip workers of basic protections.
- Acting on findings from the Gen Z protests, authorities arrested former PM KP Sharma Oli and ex-minister Ramesh Lekhak, and the Nepal Electricity Authority posted jobs for one eligible relative of each of the 27 students killed.