Ministry forms committee to probe over 200,000 duplicated student records
The Education and Sports Ministry has formed a five-member committee to investigate more than 200,000 student records found repeated in the national school data system, according to an informal study.
The Ministry of Education and Sports has moved ahead with an inquiry into duplicated student records in the Integrated Educational Management Information System (IEMIS). According to reports by Onlinekhabar, Annapurna Post, Rajdhani Daily and Ratopati, the ministry formed a committee by ministerial decision on Thursday, November 5, 2026 (Kartik 19, 2083 BS), after an informal study found more than 200,000 student entries repeated in the system.
Education and Sports Minister Sasmit Pokharel said the ministry is taking the matter seriously. The ministry said that, going by the double entries, grants, scholarships, school meals, uniforms, textbooks and other benefits released from the state treasury may have been misused. Pokharel said the matter would be looked into further and that those at fault would face action.
The body is a five-member study and monitoring committee. Its coordinator is Shivakumar Sapkota, joint secretary of the ministry's Sports and School Education Division. The other members are Bhakta Bahadur Godar, a director at the Department of Education; Binod Neupane, a computer engineer at the ministry; and Nikita Dahal, a legal officer. Shiv Prasad Regmi, an under secretary in the School Education Section, is the member-secretary.
The committee is to study in detail whether so many entries were repeated because of a technical weakness or deliberate misconduct. It has also been told to recommend to the ministry the strongest possible action against any schools, managers or other responsible persons who misused state funds by submitting false data.
The ministry said it took the step to remove the duplicate and fake entries and make IEMIS transparent, secure and based on real figures. The count of more than 200,000 comes from the informal study; the reports do not say how many of the entries are fake or whether any money has actually been lost.