Bharatpur metropolis provides budget to purchase school buses

Bharatpur : The Bharatpur Metropolitan City has provided a budget to seven schools to purchase school buses.

The metropolis provided the budget for this purpose to five schools last year while an agreement has been signed with two schools for the same in the current fiscal year.

Chief of Bharatpur Metropolitan City’s Education Division, Mahendra Poudel, said that an agreement was signed to provide a budget to Sajhapur Secondary School, Meghauli, and Shree Secondary School, Dhaddaghari, for buying school buses in the current fiscal year.

Both the schools would get Rs 1.75 million each. The budget was provided to Narayani Secondary School, Bhimnagar Secondary School, Kabilas Secondary School, Prabhat Secondary School, and Laxmi Secondary School in the last fiscal year.

The metropolis had provided Rs 1.65 million each and the remaining budget is yet to be provided, added Poudel.

Mayor Renu Dahal said that the metropolis has been investing a huge amount in government schools to improve the quality of school education and to increase the attraction of students to government schools.

She further shared that the metropolitan city has also been providing scholarships to meritorious students as well as developing physical infrastructures of schools and building student-friendly classrooms.