KATHMANDU: Ambassador of India to Nepal Naveen Srivastava and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki jointly inaugurated two projects built with the assistance of Indian government, in Sunsari district, on Saturday.

The projects are School Building, Hostel Block & Play Ground for Nepal Police School in Dharan and School Building for Shree Mahendra Secondary School in Mahendranagar.

These two projects were undertaken by DCC Sunsari with the grant assistance from Government of India at the cost of Rs 48.90 million, as High Impact Community Development Projects (HICDPs) under India-Nepal Development Cooperation.

These are among the 75 projects being inaugurated this year in Nepal as part of “India@75 Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” which celebrates 75 years of India’s independence.

Since 2003, India has taken up over 532 HICDPs in Nepal and has completed 475 projects in the areas of health, education, drinking water, connectivity, sanitation and creation of other public utilities across all 7 provinces of Nepal at the grassroots level.

Out of these, 80 HICDPs are in Province-1, including 12 projects, in Sunsari district.

India and Nepal enjoy multi-faceted and multi-sectoral development partnership that is reflective of the closeness of the people of both countries.

The implementation of this project reflects the continued support of the Government of India to socio cultural infrastructure and contributing to development of people to people links.