KATHAMNDU- Inauguration of the newly constructed educational building of Sindhuli Community Technical Institute located in Kamalamai Municipality-6 of Sindhuli District with the grant support of the Government of India.

Kathmandu – The newly constructed educational building of Sindhuli Community Technical Institute, located in Kamalamai Municipality-6 of Sindhuli district, has been inaugurated with the support of the Government of India grant. Prashant Kumar Sona, the second secretary of the Indian Embassy and Karsang Lama, the head of the Sindhuli District Coordination Committee, jointly inaugurated the educational building built for the Sindhuli Community Technical Institute, located in Kamalamai Municipality-6 of the Sindhuli district, with the help of a grant from the Government of India.

Under the India-Nepal development cooperation program, this building was constructed as a community development project with the financial support of the Government of India at a cost of 44.1 million Nepalese rupees. This project is one of the 75 projects to be inaugurated in Nepal this year under the ‘Nectar of Independence Festival’ initiated by the Government of India to celebrate 75 years of India’s independence.

Sindhuli Community Technical Institute was established in 2014. The organization, which is a partner organization of the Technical Education and Vocational Training Council, has been conducting civil engineering and agriculture (zoology) education at the graduate level in joint collaboration with the District Coordination Committee and Kamalamai Municipality. Similarly, this institute is affiliated with Kathmandu University and has been conducting technical education, civil engineering and information technology classes at the undergraduate level.

More than 292 students are studying in the institute out of which 30 percent are female students. The construction of the new structure built with the help of the Government of India will provide a better educational environment to the students.

Since 2003, India has initiated more than 527 high impact community development projects in Nepal, 470 projects have been completed in the seven provinces of Nepal in the fields of health, education, drinking water, connectivity, sanitation and other public facilities. Among them, 4 are in Sindhuli district and 103 are in Bagmati province.

India and Nepal have a multilateral and multilateral development partnership which reflects the closeness between the people of the two countries. The implementation of this project reflects the continuous support provided by the Government of India to the efforts made by the Government of Nepal to develop infrastructure in priority areas including education.