India extends Rs 44.17 million grant assistance to construct new building

India is helping Nepal construct new school building of Shree Naharpur Secondary School in Butwal.

Head of Development Partnership and Reconstruction Wing of the Embassy of India, Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration and Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City, Rupandehi today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for construction of new school building of Shree Naharpur Secondary School at Butwal-11, Naharpur in Rupandehi.

The new school building will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 44.17 million under Nepal-Bharat Maitri Development Partnership as a part of High Impact Community Development Project scheme programme of government of India, according to a press note issued by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.

Established in1971, Shree Naharpur Secondary School is affiliated to National Examinations Board (NEB). The school is providing education in the field of Education and Management at +2 levels. Currently some, 1,127 students are enrolled in the school and about 50 per cent of which are girls students. 

Since 2003, under High Impact Community Development Projects programme, earlier known as Small Development Projects (SDP), India has completed 446 projects in the areas of health, education, drinking water, connectivity, sanitation and creation of other public utilities in across all seven provinces of Nepal. Out of these, 41 are in Province-5, including ten completed projects in Rupandehi District and 9 projects are under various stages of completion in province 5 including one in Rupandehi district.

India is also reconstructing 71 educational institutions damaged during 2015 devastating arthquake in eight districts of Nepal under reconstruction grant of Rs 5800 million, the press note reads, adding that eight schools have already been completed, work on 62 schools is ongoing and the Tribhuvan University Central Library project is under tender process.