Kavre, August 4:

Maoist area commander Sancha Tamang today made the Dahaltar-based Janajagriti primary school pay Rs 30,000 in the name of donation to the party, a teacher said.

Commander Tamang told Shiv Prasad Acharya, president of the Kali Devi Saving and Loan Cooperatives, that he would shoot him if he did not come to Kamidanda with the sum. Founder of the People’s Foundation Trust Holland Drik had deposited Rs 600,000 at the cooperatives for helping the school construct a building.

Admitting that they had been demanding they be given five per cent of the fund, Kavre-Sindhuli district secretary of the CPN (Maoist) Laldhoj said, “It is mandatory for the schools and funds to donate us five per cent of the funds as development budget.”