BUTWAL, April 19 -- In an attempt to bring all children of school-going age to the school system, Kotahimai Rural Municipality has started distributing school uniforms, bags and stationeries to the students enrolled to the Early Childhood Development (ECD)-a pre-school facility in public schools-of all community schools and Madrasas.

Kotahimai, a remote local unit of Rupandehi district, has 14 community schools, six Madrasas and two community organisations that have been operating the ECD centre. Chandra Bhusan Yadav, chief of the rural municipality, said that the local unit took the decision in order to successfully bring all the children of school-going age to the school system and control the dropout rate.

According to him, many chil...