Three educational institutions that have been built by India were inaugurated in Nepal on Saturday.
The Shree Saraswati Tika Higher Secondary School has been built with an Indian assistance of 37.10 million Nepalese Rupees. Nepal's Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari inaugurated the school in a ceremony that was also attended by Dr Ajay Kumar, the Embassy of India in Nepal's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and the Mayor of Kaski Man Bahadur GC in attendance.
On the same day, the DCM and Kaski's Mayor also inaugurated the Shree Laxmi Adarsha Multiple Campus in Lekhnath and the Shree Gupteshwor Mahadev Multiple Campus in Pokhara. India has given 48.40 million Nepali Rupees and 41.10 million Nepali Rupees respectively towards the institutes.
All the institutes have a healthy percentage of girl-students, with Shree Laxmi Adarsha Multiple Campus having a percentage of 85 per cent girl students, while The Gupteshwor Mahadev Multiple Campus' student body comprises 80 per cent girls.
"The newly built infrastructure (Conference Hall, Computer Lab, Library, etc.) will not only boost learning environment for students but also enhance access to education to needy, poor and marginalised students of Kaski, Syangia, Parbat, Myagdi, Tanahun districts," an official statement mentioned.