Sixty-five schools in Dailekh have been selected under the Presidential Educational Reform Program. As the physical infrastructure is deteriorating and the educational situation is deteriorating every year, 65 schools in Dailekh have been selected for educational reform.
Tej Bahadur Thapa, head of the Education Development and Coordination Unit, Dailekh, said that 65 out of the 278 schools recommended in the current fiscal year have been selected.
According to him, 6 schools of Narayan Municipality, 8 schools of Dullu Municipality, 9 schools of Chamunda Bindrasaini Municipality, 6 schools of Aathbisa Municipality, 5 schools of Mahabu Gaupalika, and 5 schools of Thantikadh Gaupalika have been selected.
Similarly, 5 schools of Gurans Gaupalika, 4 of Bhairavi Gaupalika, 6 of Dungeshwor Gaupalika, 5 of Naumule Gaupalika, and 6 of Bhagwatimai Gaupalika have been recommended.
According to Thapa, Rs 3.6 million has been allocated for the construction of a four-room building, Rs 1.8 million for a two-room building, and Rs 650,000 for an ICT lab.
Two schools of Thantikadh Rural Municipality have been selected for the construction of ICT, two four-room and one two-room building.
Two four-room, three two-room, and four school ICT buildings of Chamunda Bindrasaini Municipality have been selected for construction.
Similarly, three ICTs, one four-room, and two-and-a-half-room buildings in Dungeshwor have been selected while two four-room, two ICT, and one two-room buildings in Gurans have been selected.
Four ICTs, one two-room and one four-room building of Narayan Municipality have been selected for construction while four two-room, one four-room, and one ICT of 28 municipalities have been selected for construction.
Similarly, schools have been selected for 2 ICT, 2 two-room, and 1 four-room building of Naumule Rural Municipality. Three ICTs, one two-room, one four-room, and one school of Bhagwatimai village have been selected under TEVT exemption for the last financial year.
All the local level education chiefs of the district have said that the new physical infrastructure will not only be built in the dilapidated schools after the budget for construction of school buildings and operation of ICT labs has been allocated under the National Education Reform Program.
Although the plan is not enough for schools whose physical infrastructure is almost dilapidated, education chiefs say there will be some relief.
Tej Bahadur Thapa, head of the Education Development and Coordination Unit Office, Dailekh, said that everything would improve if the government regularized the President's educational reform program and selected schools in crisis.
According to the Education Development and Coordination Unit Office, Dailekh, there are currently 378 community and 55 private and 433 basic schools in the district.
Similarly, there are 538 schools in the district including 101 community and 4 private schools, and 105 secondary schools.
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