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As there is the impact of the westerly winds in the country, partial to normal change in the weather in some areas of the country is likely this afternoon, according to the Weather Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The Division said that light rain along with wind and thunder is expected in some places of the country.  It said that some parts of the high hills and mountainous regions would witness snowfall as well. Currently, the weather in the Gandaki, Karnali, Lumbini and Sudurpaschim Provinces is cloudy while the weather is clear in the rest of the areas in the country. Later today, there is a possibility of sporadic rain in the Kathmandu Valley.

All preparations for this year's Secondary Education Examination (SEE) have been completed. This year's SEE is taking place across the country from 8 am tomorrow, said Chairperson of National Examination Board Mahashram Sharma. He said, "All preparations for SEE have been completed. A virtual meeting was conducted with all responsible bodies of all 77 districts for the same. We requested all to conduct the examinations in a peaceful, disciplined and systematic manner." Sharma added all examination related activities including designating invigilators at all examination centers, security arrangement, mobilization of human resources and taking question papers and answer-sheets have been completed. Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha said the Province Examination Operation and Management Committee formed under chairmanship of Province Secretary in every province would operate, manage and monitor the examinations in the provinces remaining in the periphery of Board's directives. The District Examination Coordination Committee formed comprising Chief District Officer, chiefs of security bodies in every district have completed all necessary tasks including designating invigilator in examination centers, imparting orientation to stakeholders, he mentioned. Around 500 thousand candidates Controller of Examinations Shrestha said although 516 thousand 591 students studying in Grade 9 filled up the registration form for the SEE in 2022, a total of 484,227 filled up the exam form in grade 10. The number has decreased by 32 thousand 364 compared to the number of applicants in Grade 9. The highest number of candidates are in Bagmati Province (106 thousand 959) and the lowest in Karnali Province (41,329). Around 15 thousand students will be taking the exams in the technical stream. Similarly, 2982 students from 65 schools running course in Sanskrit and 50 blind students are also appearing in the SEE this year. Students from 11 thousand 829 schools, including 7,200 community and 4,564 institutional schools are sitting in the SEE this year. A total 2037 exam centers have been designated for SEE. These include 2036 exam centers in 77 districts and one in Japan. Seventy-eight thousand human resources will be mobilized at the exam centers throughout the country for conducting the SEE.

Date expired medicines were found distributed to the patients in a free eye camp organized in Haldibari of Jhapa. After the incident came to light, the Haldibari Rural Municipality formed a three-member probe committee. A village executive meeting formed the three-member committee under the headship of Health Branch Head Pushkar Niraula. Administration Branch Chief Rajan Neupane and Accounts Head Deepak Bhattarai are the members of the committee. Health Branch Chief Nirula said that the committee will submit the probe report to the rural municipality within three days. A total of 501 people underwent eye tests in the camp. Among them, 378 persons were distributed glasses and 26 have been referred to the Mechi Netralaya for cataract surgery. The Sterile eye medicine distributed in the camp has expiry dates of April 2022 and November 2021 Haldibari-4 Ward Chairman Santa Kumar Thapa said that he has no knowledge about the incident. The expired medicines were found in 11 families of the same village, local Pankaj Sah said.

The government is all set to run the National Vitamin 'A' Campaign for children from the second week of April. Director at Family Welfare Division under the Department of Health Service Dr Bibek Kumar lal said that vitamin 'A' and de-worming tablets would be administered to the children across the country on April 19-20. According to him, vitamin 'A' capsules would be administered to the children from six to 59 months and de-worming tablets to the children from 1-5 years. The Division has issued a circular to the province and local level to lend support to make the campaign a success.