Saturday, September 28, 2019

India builds school building

Deputy chief of Mission at the Embassy of India in Kathmandu Dr Ajay Kumar inaugurated the school building of Kuleshwor Awas Secondary School located in Kathmandu-14 today.
The new school building constructed with the Government of India’s grant assistance of Rs 38.60 million is a three-storey building comprising 20 classrooms, separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls on each floor, underground water tank, septic tank and furniture. “The project was implemented by Kathmandu District Coordination Committee (DCC), according to a press note issued by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.
Chairman of DCC Shiva Sundar Raj Vaidya, chairman of the ward-14 Shova Sapkota and District Coordination Officer Pitamber Adhikari, along with political and community leaders also participated in the inaugural ceremony.
Kuleshwor Awas Secondary School – established in 1989 by Kuleshwor Awas Pariwar Kalyan Sanstha – is run with community support. At present, over 800 students are enrolled in the school out of which over 50 per cent are girls. Most of the students come from marginalised communities.
The newly built infrastructure is expected to boost the learning environment of students, the press note reads, adding that India is happy to be associated with the project which compliments effort of Nepal in augmenting infrastructure in the field of education.

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