New Classroom Block Ends Hazardous Learning Conditions at Remote Nepal School

Myagdi. The compulsion to risk studying in a dilapidated building at Muktipath Basic School in Birota, Annapurna Rural Municipality-6, Myagdi, has ended.

With the construction of a new four-room building, the problem faced by students and teachers of having to study in a risk-prone building, which was three decades old, leaking, had cracked walls, and was on the verge of collapse, has been resolved.

School Principal Maiyakumari Baruwal stated that teaching and learning have now begun smoothly in a safe environment following the completion of the classroom building. "Previously, there was fear due to the dilapidated classroom building," she said, "Now that a safe building has been constructed, an environment for worry-free teaching and learning has been created."

The school, which offers education up to Grade 3, currently has 22 students. The four-room classroom building, along with a toilet, was constructed through the labor contribution of local consumers, supported financially by the Annapurna Rural Municipality and the German organization 'Himalaya Friends e.V.'.

Ward Chairman Ram Bahadur Khadka stated that the German organization contributed NPR 149,000 for the construction of the building, for which the Annapurna Rural Municipality had allocated a budget of NPR 2 million in the last fiscal year and NPR 550,000 in the current fiscal year.