MYAGDI: Baranja VDC in Myagdi district was declared the first fully literate area in the district on Saturday.

The announcement was made as 95.2 percent of VDC’s population can now read and write.Officials announced that all children had access to school in the VDC.

Resource person at the District Education Office Krishna Lal Sapkota said a total of 3,738 people between the ages of 15 and 60 years in the VDC are literate.