Education projects to benefit Lumbini villages

Butwal, June 21 (RSS): The Literacy and Non-Formal Education Project has been launched here with an objective of enhancing the living standard of the people residing the peripheral villages of Lumbini zone.

The project aims at providing skill development training to the illiterate and poverty-stricken people of different villages in Rupandehi and Kapilvastu districts.

Under the project, the village people will be included in groups at the community study centres established at Madhubani, Khudrabagar and Tenusawa of Rupandehi and Phulika, Patariya and Rajpur of Kapilvastu district.

It is believed that the project run by Non-Formal Education National Resources Centre Nepal in collaboration with International Buddist Society, Lumbini under the patronage of Torakaya committee Nepal, an umbrella organisation of seven different NGOs will be helpful in improving the living standard of local people.

In an inaugural speech, vice-chairman of Lumbini Development Trust Omkar Prasad Gauchan expressed happiness over the initiation of the community development programme in Lumbini zone.

On the occasion, advisor of National Federation of UNESCO in Japan Muja Kagawa said that the donations of Japanese people collected by UNESCO Federation of Japan will be handed over to the programme, and it will be the symbol of mutual cooperation between the people of Nepal and Japan.

Rupendehi DDC vice-chairman Ramchandra Dhakal presided over the programme.

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