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Some educational institutions in Tulasipur in Dang district will give discounts of up to 20 percent on the enrollment of children of transport workers. Some educational institutions in Tulasipur have reached an agreement to give a discount to children of transport workers on the initiatives of the All Nepal Transport Workers' Union, said the union central deputy general secretary Ghana Shyam Dangi. As per the agreement, the schools including Divine Temple Academy, Gyan Jyoti Foundation, Sagarmatha Balbatika English School, Aadarsha Academy, P&P Pathshala, Rapti Public English Boarding School, and Trimurti Himchuli English Boarding School will provide up to a 20 percent discount on the enrolment of children of transport workers.  "We all work for life sustenance. But, the situation of transport workers is miserable. So, we took initiatives in this regard," he said. Likewise, some hospitals including Rapti Life Care Hospital and Tulasipur City Hospital will give a discount to children of transport workers, said the union Dang district chairperson, Chhabi Prasad Basnet. A discussion is underway to expand the discount scheme to all educational institutions and health facilities in the district, he added.

Nepal reported 85 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 272 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 63 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 130 people underwent antigen tests, of which 22 tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours and 27 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 358 active cases in the country.

One hundred and sixteen examinees were arrested, who were attending the Secondary Education Examinations in various exam centers in Morang in the name of others, on Thursday. The SEE monitoring team caught them as they were appearing for the exam in place of the real candidates. According to the District Police Office Morang, a number of SEE examinees were arrested from Kerabari, Gramthan and Haraincha-based centers. As Superintendent of Police Deepak Pokhrel said, the highest 52 fake examinees were held from the Saraswoti Secondary School, Gramthan followed by 44 from the Sarbajanik Secondary School, Kerabari and 20 from the Janata Secondary School, Sundar Haraicha.  The arrested are under interrogation, it is said.  

The Department of National ID and Civil Registration has added a new provision for issuing a birth certificate to a child with the surname under the maternal lineage. The provision has been added targeting children born to a single mother and whose paternal lineage remains unidentified. Department Director General Rudra Prasad Pandit said the provision was added following the request from local levels for further clarifying provisions for the birth registration of such children. However, the Department mandates the cancellation of the birth registration issued under this category if the identity of the child's father is ascertained and the issuance of a new certificate along with the address of the father.