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Lalit Bahadur Ghalan, Chief, District Coordination Committee, Makwanpur and Shri Basist Nandan, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu jointly inaugurated the School Building of Shree Janakalyan Secondary School, Makawanpur built with Government of India’s financial assistance at the project cost of Rs 30 million under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation'.

Political representatives, government officials, social workers and teachers of the school, students and their parents were also present on this occasion. 

The Government of India’s grant under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’ was utilized for the construction of the school building and other allied facilities.

The project was taken up as a High Impact     Community Development Project (HICDP) and was implemented through District Coordination Committee, Makawanpur, reads a statement issued by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.

Shree Janakalyan Secondary School was established in the year 1968 as a primary school and was      further upgraded to a higher secondary school in the year 1985. This school has around 850 students, 54% of whom are girls. 

The Chief, District Coordination Committee, Makawanpur, Chairperson, School Management and other stakeholders appreciated the developmental support being provided by the Government of India to the people of Nepal.

They expressed confidence that the infrastructure created would help provide better education to the students of Shree Janakalyan Secondary School in Makawanpur. It would also help create an improved environment for learning and contribute to the overall development of the education sector in the region, according to the statement.

As close neighbours, India and Nepal are engaged in wide-ranging and multi-sectoral cooperation.

 The implementation of HICDPs reflects the continued support of the Government of India in bolstering the efforts of the Government of Nepal in growth and development of its people by augmenting infrastructure in priority sectors.  
 

So far, 85 percent of the work on the Beni-Jomsom-Korala section of the Kaligandaki Corridor has been completed under the North-South Trade Route Expansion Project.

Except for the nine projects added in the current fiscal year, the overall physical progress of the section has reached 85 percent, Information Officer of Beni-Jomsom-Korala Road Project Bishnu Chapagain stated.

Chapagain said that 85 percent physical progress has been made towards upgrading the road and 84 percent towards construction of bridges and culverts.

He said that the construction of the national pride project connecting the northern Korala border transit point was started from the fiscal year 2016/17.

According to Project Information Officer Chapagain, seven big and small roads have been blacktopped while six roads have been graveled under the road expansion project. He said the blacktopping and upgrading of the road has been completed in seven phases including Beni Kalipul, Beni Galeshwor, Tatopani to Kaiku, Kaiku to Kowang and Jomsom Kagbeni section of Myagdi.

Chapagain added that the work on the Jomsom-Korala section has been completed in six phases and the graveling work on 25 kilometers of Charang-Chhoser section has reached the final stage.

According to him, a contract was signed for blacktopping 105-km road and of this 75-km blacktopping has been completed. Similarly, out of 110 km Jomsom-Korala section, graveling has been completed on 90 km of the road, according to the Project Office.

Of the 19 bridges that were to be constructed under the Project, 14 have already been completed while the rest are under construction, said Chapagain, the information officer at the Project Office.

Of the 14 bridges completed, nine were constructed in Mustang section and five in the Myagdi section.

Currently there is a partial influence of westerly wind with local wind in the country.

The weather, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, is partly cloudy in the hilly region and fair in the rest of the country.

The Division further shared that the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and partly cloudy in the rest of the country.

Light rain with thunder and lightning is likely to occur at one or two places of the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and light snowfall at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous region.

Similarly, the weather will be partly cloudy in the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces tonight.

In the next 24 hours, there are chances of light rain with thunder and lightning at one or two places of the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces.

Also the light snowfall is likely to occur at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous regions.

The person, who was arrested with over Rs 250 million from Tokha on Tuesday, has been made public amidst a press conference in Kathmandu this afternoon.

He has been identified as Kusang Lama (43) of Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality-1, Sindhupalchowk.

A team of the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, Teku nabbed Lama with Rs 251. 60 million from the Jhor area of Tokha Municipality-1 this morning.

Police apprehended him while he was heading towards Kerung from Kathmandu in a truck. He had created a false bottom beside the driver’s seat to conceal the money.

According to a preliminary investigation of police, he was just a driver and working as a carrier.

The identity of the person with whom he was working is yet to be established.

Police said that they arrested Lama acting on a tip off.

He had already served seven years in jail on a gold smuggling case.

While recording the statement with the police, Lama said that he has been working as a  carrier.

SSP Ramesh Basnet of the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office said that Lama has been sent to the Customs Department in Harihar Bhawan for investigation.