Dang, Dec. 29 -- Each classroom at the Kauwaghari Basic School in Dangisharan Rural Municipality-2 is carpeted and has water filters, with the students busy studying. The school has 'yoga classes' for its seventh period where the students are led through basic yoga exercises. For these reasons, Kauwaghari has emerged as a model public school in an area where poor infrastructure and irregularities are the dominating features associated with public schools. Unlike many public schools around the region that charge fees under various obscure headings, Kauwaghari doesn't demand any such fees.

"The region has a history where many guardians do not send their children to school because they are poor," said Lakshman Devkota, the school principal....