Rautahat, Apr. 24: A meeting of the Nepali Congress Rautahat district working committee has decided to request the district administration to consolidate the law and order situation in the district and bring to an end the climate of terror and violence in the district. The meeting also decided to hold a mass meeting in protest against the violence and arson that erupted a few months back in local Rajpur Farahadawa. Nepali Congress Rautahat district working committee president and Minister of State for Forest and Soil-Conservation Mohammad Aftab Alam chaired the meeting.
Talking briefly to journalists after the meeting, Minister of State Aftab Alam said that terrorists involved in the arson and violence at Rajpur Pharhadawa would be arrested soon.
He said the politics of terror and violence has never succeeded anywhere in the world and expressed the belief that likewise the so-called “People’s War” launched by the Maoists in Nepal will also not see the light of the day. Minister of State Alam also expressed the present government’s strong determination to provide good governance by ending terror and violence and the cancer of corruption from the country.
In Pokhara, there are a number of ways in which generous and philanthropic people can help the society. Danda Raj Pahari, a resident of Baidam, Pokhara, and an engineer by training, has shown just how people can make the difference if they have the will to contribute to the society.
Pahari has volunteered to construct a 12,000 square feet 12-room modern building of the local Tal Barahi Secondary School for running ten plus two classes in the near future. This has also inspired the local people and they have also decided to contribute in the building construction. The building is estimated to cost Rs 11.4 million. At a press conference organised here on Saturday, Mr. Pahari handed over a cheque of Rs 1 million and the design map of the building to the school management committee.
Mr. Pahari, who completed his engineering studies in Germany in the last ten years, has also written a book on Nepalese cuisine in the German language. It is learnt that he has donated the entire money collected in royalty from the book to the school.
There are 1,200 students enrolled at the Tal Barahi school at present. Among them 630 are girl students.
In Janakpurdham, vice-chancellor of the Mahendra Sanskrit University Madhav Raj Gautam has stressed the need for development of all the national languages for greater development of the Nepali language.
He also urged understanding and cooperation between the different language communities to achieve this goal.
Vice-chancellor Gautam made these remarks while speaking at the concluding function of a five-day Hindi-Maithili orientation seminar held here at the Hajari Janak Vidyapeeth on Thursday.
The orientation seminar was jointly organised by the Mahendra Sanskrit University and the university grants commission.
Vice-chancellor Gautam further said the onslaught which the Sanskrit language was facing from all directions was indirectly affecting the Nepali language, the language of the nation, as well and warned other national languages could also face similar situation.
At the programme presided over by principal of the Vidyapeeth Jeev Nath Biyogi, chief of the Department of Hindi Suryanath Gopa, chairman of the Maithili central department Brij Kishor Thakur, Ram Dayal Rakesh, Dr. Rajendra Bimal, chief district officer Binod Gyawali, Tarakanta Jha and others also expressed their views.