RAJBIRAJ, July 28: The Bishnupur rural municipality office has distributed bicycles to 34 female community health volunteers.

The availability of bicycles with the FCHVs is expected to make health services provided by them more effective, rural municipality Vice-chair Janjira Devi Yadav said.

Despite a crunch in budget, it was made available for the support to the FCHVs through other budget headings considering the sensitiveness of the service, according to Chief Administrative Officer Ranjit Jung Adhikari.

“It will now be easier for us to travel to and from the health post and the ward office,” FCHV Arula Devi Yadav said. RSS

RUPANDEHI, Oct 25: A total of 100 students of three schools in Tilottama Municipality, Rupandehi were provided bicycles free of cost.

Students of Janajyoti Secondary School, Shanti Namuna Secondary School and Durga Dutta Secondary School were the beneficiaries of the free distribution of bicycles by South Korea-based Khwangju Buddhism Foundation.

According to Foundation’s Nepal spokesperson Gopal Acharya, the cost of distributed bicycles is around 600 thousands rupees and meritorious students from poor community and those arriving from farther areas were given priority during the distribution.

With getting bicycles in gift, the students are happy as their travel to and from home and school is to be easier and their time saved onwards.

Manisha Chaudhary, a 10th grader, and Barsha Basyal, a ninth grader at the Shanti Namuna Secondary School said such a very useful gift by the Korean organisation would be a great support to their study.

Akash Pariyar, a ninth grader at the Janajyoti Secondary School shared that the gift means a lot for those students mainly whose parents are not able to afford it for their children and those who come from farther areas.

The Foundation chose three schools in Rupandehi for the distribution of bicycles as Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Buddha, lies in the district, it is said. RSS