Ribdikot to provide free education to parentless students

Palpa, July 15 : The Ribdikot Rural Municipality in the Palpa district has announced to provide education to parentless children for free up to grade 12.    

Chairman of the Ribdikot Rural Municipality, Narayan Bahadur Karki, told the RSS that the local government has made a policy decision aimed at providing free education to the poor and parentless students so that they won't have to remain out of school.     

The rural municipality is coming up with the idea as the school enrollment of orphan children and students with missing parents is low there. In some cases, such children are taking shelter in their relatives' houses while some others are earning their life on their own from their tender age.    

To implement its decision to provide education to parentless children, the local government has started to collect the data of beneficiaries.    

According to Chairman Karki, the program would be started in the upcoming fiscal year.  (RSS)