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Minister Pokharel avoids school inauguration over coronavirus fear



JALESHWOR: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel has returned to the federal capital without attending the scheduled program of school building inauguration.

Minister Pokharel was to inaugurate the two-storey building of Yagyabalkya Laxminarayan Vidyapeeth at Matiyani municipality of Mahottari.

He returned the federal capital as per the government’s decision to not organize and attend the gathering as the preventive measures for staying away from coronavirus.

The Minister, however, shared the information that the government had already set up a health desk on 42 border points.

He urged the public not to organize any gathering and party.

Publish Date : 14 March 2020 19:24 PM

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