KATHMANDU: A new school building of Shree Bishnudevi Secondary School at Chandragiri, Kathmandu, Nepal was inaugurated on Tuesday.

It was jointly inaugurated by Karun Bansal, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu; Ghanshyam Luitel, Ward Chairperson, Chandragiri Municipality; Indra Bahadur Subedi, Chairperson, School Management Committee and Mr. Dilliram Luitel, Project Director, Central Level Project Implementation Unit (CLPIU), Ministry of Education, Science & Technology on the occasion of 77th Independence Day of India.

The school building was reconstructed at the cost of NRs. 69 million as per earthquake-resilient reconstruction norms of Government of Nepal.

The newly handed over infrastructure includes two blocks having 13 classrooms, administrative rooms, library, multipurpose hall, practical/lab rooms etc.

The new seismic resistant infrastructure has children, gender and disable friendly features which will benefit more than 500 students and provide conducive teaching-learning environment.

This school is part of 71 educational institutions being built across eight districts of Nepal under Government of India’s post-earthquake reconstruction grant of US $ 50 million.

Out of these 71 educational facilities, construction of 65 schools have been completed and remaining 6 are about to complete shortly.