Damauli (Tanahun), Ashoj 7 (Sep 23): Some schools in Tanahun have started teaching skill-based skills to students. The community school in Bhanu municipality has started teaching students the practical skills of tapari and chakati making.
Principal Harima Nepali informed that Manohar Secondary School, located in Bhanu Municipality-8, which combines learning with life skills, has started teaching tapari making skills to students. According to Nepalese, students are given the skills to make duna and tapari with the aim of transferring skills from the old generation to the new generation.
Recently, the use of aluminum paper plate has increased, and the practice of Duna Topari is disappearing. Nepali say that some of the young generation of today do not even know about duna tapari which is made from sal leaves.
Similarly, Prabhat Basic School located in Bhanu Municipality-6 Simpani has taught the students the skill of making chakati from corn cobs. The school has started conducting skill training every Friday through the ‘Bookless Friday’ program. Chizkumar Surkhali, the principal of the school, informed that the students were taught to make a disc out of corn husks with the aim of improving their skills along with their studies. According to him, skills such as computer repair, painting, attendance management, electrical wiring etc. have been taught according to the interest of the students.
School teachers Mankumari Khawas, Pratima Khadgi, Rekh Bahadur Thapa taught the students to make chakati from corn husks. Dhurvaraj Poudel, Head of Education Branch of Bhanu Municipality, informed that conducting extracurricular activities in schools will help in increasing the skills and abilities of students. He said, “Some schools have made exemplary efforts by starting the practical practice of life skills in children, it should be continued.”
Vyas Teaching Underprivileged Children
Byas municipality has adopted the guardianship of two orphan students. Byas municipality-13 The municipality has taken guardianship of two orphan children of Chhabdi residents by taking care of their education and food. After the death of their parents, both of them, who had been working at other people’s houses, were admitted to the Byas Nagar Samata School established by the municipality under the guardianship of city chief Vaikunth Neupane and ward president Basant Ale.
They who are studying in class 1 and 6 will now study in residential school Nagar Samata School. The Municipality has established Nagar Samata Vidyalaya in Byas Municipality-7 with the aim of providing assistance to poor, helpless and orphaned children in their studies.
There are currently 53 children studying in that school. Mayor Neupane says that the municipality aims to develop this school as a model school in the country. He said, “The entire responsibility of the children studying here is being borne by the municipality itself.” According to Neupane, the management of food and accommodation for the students studying in the school has also been done in this way.
Caminkot Primary School, which is closed, has been operated as Samata School since last year. Ward president Krishna Prasad Neupane informed that arrangements have been made for studying in the school for children who are very poor, without parents, who are not in access to education. The school is currently teaching up to class 6. It is planned to add more classes in the near future.
