India completes electrification work at seven Nepal villages

From Shirish B Pradhan

Kathmandu: India today completed electrification work for seven remote villages in western Nepal’s Rupandehi District at a cost of Rs 10.77 million.

Ambassador of India to Nepal Ranjit Rae was present at the inauguration ceremony for the electrification work completed at Bhagwanpur Village Development Committee in Rupandehi with Indian financial grant of Rs 10.77 million.

The project included installing seven transformers in seven villages of Bhagwanpur by laying 11 KV power distribution lines and erection of 331 electric poles.

The completion of electrification work would benefit people residing in this area, according to a press release issued by the India Embassy here.

Rae and Minister for Commerce and Labour Deepak Bohara, today also jointly inaugurated a newly constructed campus building for Pratiman-Neema Memorial Vocational Training Institute at Sidharthnagar in the same Rupandehi District in western Nepal.

The double-storied building, constructed with Indian financial assistance of Rs 44.35 million, consists of 18 rooms, library hall, reception, visitor’s room and separate rest rooms for boys and girls students, it said.

The Pratiman-Neema Memorial Foundation, a non-profit making, non-Governmental organization, has been working for upliftment of backward sections of the society since its establishment.

The Vocational Training Institute presently runs courses for lab-technician and lab-assistant in affiliation with CTVET.

The new campus building will provide infrastructure to students for learning technical skills, improving their professional qualities and become self-dependent, the statement added. PTI