Children will be taught about Ramayana in community and institutional schools of Gokarneshwor Municipality. A campaign has been launched to distribute 'Chhotakari Ramayana' written by the first Chief Secretary Chandra Bahadur Thapa in all schools so that it can be read by children. After the first edition of Chhotakari Ramayana was published in 2022 BS, Thapa's grandson Vijay Kumar Thapa started the second edition and started free distribution campaign in community and institutional schools of Gokarneshwar.
Publisher Vijay Kumar Thapa has handed over the required books for the schools of Ward No. 4 of the Gokarneshwor Municipality to the Ward Chairman Shri Kumar Shrestha at a book handover program organized at Yagyadol (Jagdol) Community Forest Area on Saturday.
Mentioning that he had read the book written by his grandfather at the age of nine, the publisher Thapa said that the book was published and distributed free of cost so that the secondary level students could get the opportunity to study based on the impact it has had so far.
On the occasion, Chairman of Yagyadol (Jagdol) Community Forest Users Group Sudarshan Sigdel, Ward Chairman Shrestha and others expressed confidence that the book would be useful for developing moral knowledge in children from an early age. In the first phase, five copies of the book will be given to all the schools in the municipality and kept in the library. Students who want to study can benefit from these books.
Prada Vratraj Acharya, president of the Bhanu Pratishthan, says that the 92-page book is based on a long story of Ramayana. He said that the book was useful for teaching morality to children.
There are 115 schools including 17 community and 98 institutional schools in the municipality. Although the municipality has implemented local curriculum for grades 1 to 8, students have complained that reading of this book has stopped after the Coronation period. The municipality claimed to have implemented the local curriculum for the first time in the country.
