It needs step-by-step hearings as this law is quite different from the normal laws," said MP Khin Maung Yi, chairperson of the bill committee. "It is crucial that this should be a perfect law as this relates to national affairs. So it needs to take some time.
"Bills such as the budget bill, the taxation bill, the national planning bill are at the top of the agenda at the 12th regular parliamentary session. And the amendment of the constitution is also high on the agenda. The bill committee is making all-out efforts to approve (the education amendment) as soon as possible in the teeth of other important cases. We will finalise it in the 12th regular parliamentary session."
Hundreds of students from across the country have been staging protests against the National Education Law for more than a month, but authorities have warned them under threat of arrest against marching into Yangon.
During talks earlier this month involving the protesters, their support organisations and parliamentarians, the students provided an 11-point demand on how the law should be amended.