KATHMANDU, Nov. 4: Ambassador of India, Manjeev Singh Puri inaugurated the newly constructed school building & compound wall for Shree Tapsi Baba Secondary School During his visit to Dhanusha District on November 03.  

In a ceremony, Ambassador Puri inaugurated the school building and compound wall for Shree Tapsi Baba Secondary School. The new building, constructed with India’s grant assistance of 2.65 Crores would facilitate better learning environment to approx. 1000 students of the school that was established in 1979 as a lower secondary school and was subsequently upgraded to secondary level in 1995. The school is providing free education to tribal students from the tribal areas of the Dhanusha and adjoining Districts.

Till date, seven GOI Aided Projects worth 16.66 Crores have been completed in Dhanusha District. These projects include school, library, museum buildings, bridges and roads. Eleven more projects i.e. school buildings, roads and bridges etc. are being constructed with GOI assistance of 31.13 Crores. Apart from this 29 ambulances and 5 buses have been donated to various organisations in Dhanusha District.

The Nepal-India Economic programme has an outlay of over 76 billion with more than 554 large and small development projects completed or currently being implemented all across Nepal in cooperation with the Government of Nepal.  These development projects mainly focused in education, health and infrastructure development sectors recognizing and responding to local needs to help the Government of Nepal achieving all-inclusive socio-economic developments.