Home in Nepal but studying in India. Residents of Ilam border region have similar obligation. Children in the border areas are forced to attend Indian schools because there are no schools nearby. Due to the lack of schools on the Nepal side, there is a problem for the residents of the Eastern Pahari district border area.

In the absence of schools in Nepal, to educate children at an expensive fee  The parents of the area who are forced say. 

Pema Tamang of Sandakpur rural municipality-5 in Ilam is nine years old. She studies in an Indian school. She said that because there is no school near home, she has to stay and study in India. Tamang has been studying in a dormitory in India.

After the closure of the schools on the Nepal side, most of the residents of that area are forced to send their children to Indian schools, said the local Dawa Lama. Some parents send their children to hostels and some rent rooms in India. There is a problem due to the closure of schools on the Nepal side due to lack of students.  

Many students from that area are studying in different schools in Manebhanjyang. To get higher education, one has to rely on Indian schools. Parents are struggling to educate their children in primary level in India. On the other hand, public schools have been closed due to lack of students.  

There are no private schools in Nepal in that area. Due to the closure of public schools in the northern region bordering India, it is compulsory to study there. There is also a shortage of children in the area with low population. The children in the border areas of Sandakpur Rural Municipality, Maijogmai Rural Municipality and Suryodaya Municipality in the northern region have problems in reading. 

Sonam Sherpa of Joubari said that since the schools in Joubari, Meghma, Kalpokhari and other places have been closed for the past few years, they have to go and live with their parents in the Indian region to teach the children from the primary level. Due to the Lekali area  The settlement is thin. Population density is also low. 

The local Doma Sherpa said that the National Primary School in Sandakpur Rural Municipality-5 Jaubari was closed nine years ago. The school, which teaches up to class 5, was closed in 2072 due to lack of students. Currently, 14 students from Joubari are going to study in India. Even the school in the wall was moved to another location three years ago. Locals say that after the school was closed, the problem became worse.  

Sandakpur-5 primary school in Kalpokhari, Maijogmai-2 Saraswati primary school operating in Magma, Sandakpur-5 primary school in Majuwa are closed. Locals say that there is no school near Nepal. It takes four hours to reach Jyoti Vidyalaya located in Maijogmai-2. There is a compulsion to go to the center of other rural villages in the new market. It also takes three to four hours to reach the school in Nayabazar. 

Parents don't want to work after a long drive to take their children to school. They say that one of the children of the house should be taken to school and brought home. About 35  Dambar Subedi, Ward President of Maijogmai Rural Municipality-2, said that students are deprived of going to school in Nepal. Even the children of Lamidhura area of ​​Suryodaya municipality cannot study in Nepal. They also have to go to the nearest Indian school.