Kathmandu- The Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection has taken action against 5 educational consultancies.

The department’s monitoring team took action against the five educational consultancies and fined them Rs 332,000 as part of regular monitoring.

The department has informed that Edu Hub Global Nepal Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-31 have been fined of Rs 100,000 , Rs 75,000 to Student Abroad Study Center Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu-28, and Rs 55,000 to Galaxy and Global International Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu-16.

Similarly, Oasis Career Advisor Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu-10 and Ringo Japanese Language Academy Pvt. Ltd. paid a fine of Rs. 51000 , the department said.

According to the department, these 5 consultancies were operating without a license from the Ministry of Education.The department has directed 5 educational consultancies to appear within 3 days with business-related documents, while 6 have been given general instructions.

The department had started monitoring the educational consultancies after the complaints have been received against the fraud of educational consultancies.During the monitoring, it was found that 70 percent of the consultancies were operating without registration and were operating illegally without a license from the Ministry of Education.