Lately, drama is also becoming an alternative learning method in schools under 'Extra Activity Learning'. There has been an increase in the number of schools giving formal drama staging and training to students by skilled dramatists.

Drama is being taught and taught in many schools of the capital. It has a positive effect. Their socialization practices are increasing along with child participation, talent exposure. How to introduce new visitors, relatives, friends? How to behave? Acting in dramas and other involvements are easily implemented. 

Recently, while the 'International Drama Festival' was going on in the capital and some theaters across the country, Kathmandu Pragya Kunj School also organized 'Kathmandu Pragya Kunj Natya Mahotsav-2081'. This festival is a children focused drama festival. The drama festival was organized in accordance with the student-centered drama teaching method to be organized under 'Lalabala'. 'Lalabala' is a platform where children are regularly taught acting. Started from 2016, this platform organizes 6 months course. After rehearsing for about 2 months, the play is staged through children. The founder of this stage is the well-known artist and writer Tank Chaulagai, who started it with the aim of introducing Nepali drama to schools and students. He says that in the field of drama, something can be done for children through drama creation, staging, and acting. He reached out to schools with the view that drama and theater can be the basis of all-round development for children. Along with him, dozens of drama workers and colleagues are teaching and training drama in different schools.

Under this, 'Kathmandu Pragya Kunj Natya Mahotsav' is being organized among children for 10 years. This year too, students from classes 3 to 9 staged around 17 plays based on different themes. The theater festival which started from Chait 17 to 22 was held at Nepal Film Campus Pingalasthan. 

On the first day, 3 plays of half an hour each were presented in the play which started with class 3 students. On other days also, students staged 3/3 plays. The festival featured dramas with a positive message based on child psychology and stories linked to learning, with a special focus on children. In the drama, the issues of Nepali soil, identity, society, politics, geography, originality, religion, customs, culture and especially child rights were raised. Parents looked emotional or excited as they watched their little ones perform on stage.

The plays staged at the week-long theater festival included 'Sofia and Kale', 'Dukhi Rajkumari', 'Sin-Buddhi Dharmabuddhi', 'Bise Nagarchi', 'Hirako Voto', 'Lakshmi Puja', 'Lalabala', 'Ujyalotir', 'Khelne Bela', 'Family Photo', 'Roll No. Char', 'Shishir Vasant' received appreciation from the audience. These plays were written and directed by Tank Chaulagain, Prateek Dulal, Bansari Pandey, Prakash Dahal and Saujan Limbu. In this way, most of the Nepali and some foreign dramas were staged and an opportunity was created to taste the variety of local and global tastes. It was not so easy for the little ones to bring alive the subjects and characters of these diverse fields, mythical, historical, and political, through drama. They are not old enough to understand the depth of the subject. However, due to the dedication of skilled dramatists and directors, the students were engaged in acting on serious topics and events. The costumes and speech patterns according to the period, character and environment made it clear that they were not acting, but were characters living the life of that time. 

"We have been performing plays continuously for 13 years with the thought of developing many kinds of skills and competencies including language teaching, increasing confidence, developing vocabulary, developing the habit of working in group coordination, empathy, all-round development, etc.

'Lalabala' organized the Kathmandu International Children's Drama Festival Nepal-2016. Since then, children and schools have been working continuously. The director of that International Children's Drama Festival was also Tank Chaulagai. In it, plays in different languages ​​were performed in the joint project of artists with children from about 15 countries. He is preparing to bring a new book 'Varnamala' soon for artist and theater training. Drama is a powerful visual medium. Drama practice is teaching students the colors of life. On the stage, he is experiencing tears, laughter, happiness, sadness, stress. It seems that theater is a school for him to understand life.