With the aim of arresting dropout rate and boost enrollment of girl students in higaher classes, Buddhabhumi Municipality of Kapilvastu district has gifted bicycles to 248 girl students of community schools.
The municipality gifted the bicycles to the girls of wards 5, 6,7,8 and 10, who have recently passed Grade VIII, under the Chief Minister Rural Development and Employment Programme, said Mayor Keshav Kumar Shrestha.
Sushila Darlami, member of the programme’s selection committee, said the objective of the programme was to ensure that no girl student had to quit education because of lack of transportation.
With a bicycle in hand, a girl is more secure on the way, regular in school and it also saves time and energy, she added.