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India Builds Aurobindo Ashram School in Thankot

Posted by | Jan 23, 2020 |

The School Building of Aurobindo Ashram School in Thankot, Kathmandu, District ceremonially inaugurated on 22 January 2020 by Dr. Ajay Kumar, Charge d’ Affairs, Embassy of India. Mr. Mani Ram Gelal, Director General, Department of Urban Development and Building Construction along with the political, community leaders also attended the inaugural ceremony. Aurobindo Ashram School was established in 1993 by Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir in Thankot, Kathmandu District. This is a residential School, affiliated to National Examination Board, Government of Nepal. The School is providing Secondary School Education to nearly 260 students. The school has over 53% of girls students. The most of the students are poor, destitute and orphan. The School is providing free education and hostel facility to them. The project was implemented by DUDBC. The new infrastructure constructed with the Government of India’s grant assistance of NRs. 28.25 million, is a three storied building comprising eleven class rooms, three labs, four store rooms, two staff rooms, one room each for account, administration, record, library, principal, PA, examination, multi-purpose hall and furniture. The newly built infrastructure is expected to boost learning environment of students. Government of India is happy to be associated with the project which compliments effort of Government of Nepal in augmenting infrastructure in the field of education....

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Tharu museum opens for visitors

Posted by | Jan 22, 2020 |

The Tharu Museum based in Bhalka of Shuklaphanta municipality-8 in Kanchanpur has been opened for tourists from home and abroad targeting the Visit Nepal Year 2020. The museum has been set up in a traditional Tharu house built with the support of municipality ward office. Bhalka remains as the identical place of indigenous Tharu community. The museum is now fitted with solar energy and it ensures toilet facility for visitors. It reflects the culture, lifestyle, and tradition of the Tharu people. Artefacts and articles that the Tharu people have been using for livelihood since the ancient time have been displayed in the museum. Such objects are helkla, diliya, chhituwa, pakhai, delwa, berri, parka, paina, chandol, doli, dhadhiya, khogiya, paiwa, kharau, chhautwa, dapala, manda, basya, kuthari, dehari, maruwa, pata, bhala, barsi and dhal. Besides, it features Tharu’s traditional costumes and agricultural tools belonged to the Tharu community. Ward chair Bahadur Mahara pledged to ensure additional budget to further systematise the museum. For a week, the entry fee is free and after a week, the local government will determine the fees, it is said. Bhalka remains as the ancient holy shrine of the Tharu community. It has a water pond and its water remains cold during summer and turns warm during winter. A huge cultural festival is organized here every year on the occasion of the Maghe Sankranti. House of Representatives...

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Orange farming changes face of entire settlement

Posted by | Jan 22, 2020 |

– Krishna Darnal Bahundanda at Amlabas which lies in the Rainadevi Chhahara rural municipality-4 in Papla is home to 30 households. The identity of the village does not end here as it has something special to indentify itself in particular as it now earns the recognition as a ‘pocket zone’ for orange production. Commercial orange farming has now become a means of bringing a significant change in the lives of Bahundanda folks. The villagers for whom to see cash in hands was only occasional in the past now export oranges worth around Rs 200 million a year alone. Foreign employment has turned out to be an outdated choice among the youths here. The villagers are free from the compulsion of seeking loan for household expenses, children’s education and other purposes. They are in the position of affording higher education for their children. Their decision to switch to commercial orange farming from traditional agricultural production has proved a right one. They have separate orange gardens. During initial days, they had planted just one or two plants for personal consumption and gradually transformed it to commercial scale. They face no market shortage or low payment for their produces as they sell the produces for Rs 70-75 per kg right from the gardens. A local Gita Bhattarai said that some 13 families of the area earned around Rs 1.5 million annually by...

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Economy on healthy track, Fin Min says

Posted by | Jan 22, 2020 | ,

Minister for Finance Yuba Raj Khatiwada has said that the country’s economy was moving ahead on robust, straight and stable track. At a programme organized on the 53rd anniversary of Agricultural Development Bank in the capital city today, Khatiwada said that nation’s economy was on prideful state. Saying that country’s annual economic growth rate will be in between 6 to 8 per cent, the finance minister argued “The economy means always ups and downs; it does not always move in a straight way. The trend of economy is like that of geography.” He claimed that Nepal’s overall financial and banking system is the most robust system in South Asia. “The non-performing loan is unbelievably low. That’s welcoming,” he said. On the occasion, the finance minister also argued that the inflation rate of 6 per cent was not that much panicking. Rational interpretation of economy was needed and we can move on the positive side by holding discussions only after understanding the objective indicators of economy, he said. Also speaking at the programme, Deputy Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Chintamani Siwakoti asked the Agricultural Development Bank to focus its investment in agriculture, which has crucial contribution to the nation’s gross domestic products. On the occasion, Bank’s Chairman Chhetra Bahadur Sejuwal and Bank’s CEO Anil Kumar Upadhyay promised to make investment in the agriculture sector. The bank has been successful...

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Int’l conference in November to share reconstruction experience

Posted by | Jan 22, 2020 |

The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has decided to hold an international conference coming November to share Nepal’s achievements and experience of reconstruction after the 2015 earthquake. The international conference organizing committee is chaired by NRA Chief Executive Officer, Sushil Gyawali. Even a five-member secretariat has been formed under the coordination of a member of NRA executive committee. Member secretary of the secretariat, who is also the Spokesperson of the NRA, Manohar Ghimire, said they had held workshops relating to the reconstructions of private houses, cultural and archaeological heritages, public building, livelihood and financial rehabilitation, institutional and financial management and rescue and relief distribution after the disaster. At the final workshop organized in the federal capital on Tuesday, NRA CEO Gyawali informed that NRA was holding the international conference to share its experiences, skills, documentation and weaknesses as well. Although the NRA Act has the provision of reconstruction fund, it was not implemented. If it was implemented, reconstruction drive could gain pace,” he...

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