LOMANTHANG, MAY 28

The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has donated a school bus and an ambulance to a school and a rural municipality respectively in Mustang district.

At a programme held recently, Namgya C Khampa, Charge'd Affaires of the Indian Embassy here, inaugurated a 14-room school building for Shree Pal Ewam Namgyal Monastic School in Lomanthang, while a school bus was gifted to the same school.

The school building was built with grant assistance from the government of India at a cost of Rs 26.30 million, the Embassy of India in Nepal said in a press statement.

This is one of the 75 projects being inaugurated this year in Nepal as part of 'India @75 Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' which celebrates 75 years of India's independence, according to the Indian Embassy in Nepal.

Similarly, an ambulance was provided to the Gharapjhong Rural Municipality, informed Gauri Prasad Acharya, chief administrator in the rural municipality.

A version of this article appears in the print on May 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.