India provides Rs 15.5 mn for new school building

KATHMANDU: India will provide an assistance of Rs 15.5 million to add a new building in a school at Jumla district of northern Nepal.

Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Shanker Mukherjee laid the foundation stone on Monday for a building in Shree Chandannath Higher Secondary School in Jumla, a release from the Indian embassy said here.

The new double-storeyed building being constructed with the assistance of the Indian Government will provide the school with better infrastructure to cater to the needs of a growing number of students. The school currently has over 1100 students, of which half are girl students.

Established in 1951 and upgraded to higher secondary level in 1963, the school is one of the important educational institutions of this remote district of Nepal.

Mukherjee underlined the importance of educational infrastructure for Nepal's future development and highlighted the primacy being given to the education sector in the India-Nepal Economic Cooperation Programme.