CHITWAN: Tribhuvan University will be resuming classes in agriculture science after seven years in Chitwan district.

The classes operated under the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) have remained closed for the past seven years, following the government decision to provide the land occupied by Rampur Campus to the Agriculture and Forestry University.

TU has called in applications for Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in Khairhani of eastern Chitwan for the current year.

According to TU Vice Chancellor, Prof Dr Tirtha Khaniya, the decision to resume the Bachelor degree classes in agriculture science follows the demand of Chitwan people.

The classes will be temporarily held in a building adjoining Khairhani Secondary School and will be shifted to Chainpur of Khairhani Municipality-4 later on.

Earlier, the government had decided to provide 354 bigha of land in Chainpur to re-establish the agriculture college in the University, and allocate required budget toward that end.

Dean of IAAS, Keshav Adhikari, stated that they have got two bigha of land from the Khairhani Municipality to operate practical classes. "Other lab-related practical classes will be held at the Bharatpur-based Nepal Polytechnic Institute."

There are 50 seats for the programme this year.