KATHMANDU, Feb. 29 -- JICA Nepal Office, in collaboration with the Central Level Project Implementation Unit (CLPIU) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), hosted a painting contest among the 274 schools reconstructed by the Emergency School Reconstruction Project (ESRP) in Nov-Dec 2023. The contest aimed to engage school students in artistic expression under the theme "My New School: My Pride."

An official ceremony was held in Kathmandu to felicitate the winners from each category on Wednesday. Okubo Akimitsu, chief representative of JICA Nepal, Pramila Devi Shakya Bajracharya, secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and Ana Prasad Neupane, project director of CLPIU, presented gifts and cer...