Local Government Operation Act, 2017

Basic and Secondary Education
(1) Formulation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and regulation of policies, laws, standards, and plans relating to early childhood development and education, basic education, parent education, non-formal education, open and alternative continuing learning, community learning, and special education,
(2) Establishment, permission, operation, management, and regulation of community, institutional, trust, and cooperative schools,
(3) Plan formulation, operation, permission, monitoring, evaluation, and regulation of technical education and vocational training,
(4) Permission, monitoring, and regulation of schools providing education in mother tongue,
(5) Property management of merged or closed schools,
(6) Formation and management of Village and Municipal Education Committees,
(7) Formation and management of School Management Committees,
(8) Naming of schools,
(9) Ownership of community school land, property records, protection, and management,
(10) Quality enhancement and distribution of educational materials in schools,
(11) Matching of sanctioned posts for teachers and staff in community schools,
(12) Mapping, permission, approval, adjustment, and regulation of schools,
(13) Educational infrastructure construction, maintenance, operation, and management of community schools,
(14) Conduct, monitoring, and management of exams for basic level,
(15) Testing and management of student learning achievement,
(16) Management of free education, student incentives, and scholarships,
(17) Permission and regulation of teaching services outside school like tuition, coaching,
(18) Preservation, promotion, and standardization of local level educational knowledge, skills, and technology,
(19) Operation and management of local libraries and reading rooms,
(20) Coordination and regulation of educational programs up to secondary level,
(21) Management of grants to community schools and their budget, maintaining account discipline of school income and expenditure, monitoring, and regulation,
(22) Teaching-learning, training and capacity development of teachers and staff,
(23) Conduct of extra-curricular activities.

i. Basic Health and Sanitation
(1) Formulation, implementation, and regulation of policies, laws, standards, and plans relating to basic health and sanitation and nutrition,
(2) Operation and promotion of basic health, reproductive health, and nutrition services,
(3) Establishment and operation of hospitals and other health institutions,
(4) Development and management of physical infrastructure relating to health services,
(5) Quality control and regulation of clean drinking water and food items, and regulation of air and noise pollution,
(6) Enhancement of sanitation awareness and management of health-related waste,
(7) Collection, reuse, treatment, disposal of health-related waste and determination and regulation of service fees thereof,
(8) Operation of blood transfusion services and local and urban health services,
(9) Operation, permission, monitoring, and regulation of medicine shops,
(10) Coordination, collaboration, and partnership with private and non-governmental sectors in waste management from sanitation and health sectors,
(11) Operation, permission, monitoring, and regulation of services relating to family planning and maternal and child welfare,
(12) Reduction, prevention, control, and management of malnutrition in women and children.

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