School plans to sell rice to fund school fund and serve organic lunches to students
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A school in a remote municipality in Makawanpur has succeeded in making the school financially strong by cultivating rice on barren fields. Baljyoti Basic School in Lamitar, Bagmati Rural Municipality-7, has succeeded in producing 25 muri rice by cultivating rice on 31 kaththas of barren land.
Rice cultivation has been carried out on the barren land of Lamitar Foothills near the school premises with the collective labor of the school management committee, teachers and parents.
The school started agricultural activities with the main slogan of 'Labor and production along with education' to make the land, which has been unused for a few years, productive. The school's principal Durg Bahadur Thapa said that the school has taken this initiative to send a message that education can be linked to practical skills.
'The said land had been encroached upon and almost occupied by some locals,' he said, 'Now the school has fenced the land and cultivated rice.' Teachers, management committee and parents had not only donated labor to plant rice, but also to bring it in.
School Management Committee Chairperson Sirjana Gole, who has worked to develop respect for labor and a self-reliant mindset in students and to turn wasteful barren land into a productive one, said, "We have set a goal to link education with practical education rather than limiting it to theoretical knowledge."
The school plans to sell the produced rice and deposit it in the school's fund and feed organic lunch to students. "We have already harvested the rice planted on the said land, and are now thinking of planting potatoes and corn," said Principal Thapa. 94 students are studying in the school, which only teaches children from the Tamang community. Three teachers are working.
