Nisikhola rural municipality has started teaching the local textbook of 'Magar Kham language'. From this year, the rural municipality has prepared a textbook named Gamei (Our) Nisikhola and started teaching it. In Nisikhola, which has seven wards, Kham language is spoken only in wards 5 and 6.

Bishnuprasad Neupane, Head of Education Branch of Nisikhola Rural Municipality informed that in other wards, textbooks have been prepared and implemented in Nepali language. According to him, although the subject taught in schools of other wards is the same, 'Magar Kham Bhasha' textbook is taught in 16 schools of two wards.

He said that although there are 45 schools in the municipality, Nepali language is taught in 29 schools. Neupane, the head of the branch, says that the local textbook has been implemented in class 1 and will be taught in class 2 and 3 in the academic session 2082. Accordingly, he informed that the work of printing textbooks is going on.

Neupane said, 'There are different castes living in Nisikhola, especially in Ward No. 5 and 6, they speak Magar Kham language, in other wards they speak that language, the contents of the textbooks we have implemented now are all the same, the children of Ward No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 study in Nepali, while the students of two wards study in Magar Kham language.'

Neupane said that the syllabus for class 1 to 8 has been prepared and the textbook will be printed every year and will be implemented. He said that four people from the Magar Institute and seven local experts have been mobilized to prepare the Kham language book. Neupane said that there was some difficulty in preparing the textbook. The

textbook includes topics such as people's life, tourism, tradition, culture, agriculture, animal husbandry of Nisikhola. Surya Bahadur Ghartimagar, Chairman of Nisikhola Rural Municipality, said that when the Kham language was in crisis, he made a textbook for its preservation and started teaching it in schools.