Bidur : Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) Nuwakot district branch has signed an agreement with the save the children to launch programmes to reduce the maternity and child mortality rate with the participation of district health office.

The first phase of the programme will be conducted soon, according to NRCS branch president Ram Prasad Joshi.

The programme will be extended all over the district in the second phase, it is learnt.

Meanwhile, the first foundation day-cum-parents day of the lower secondary school at Salame VDC Ward no. 8 has concluded.

There are 8 teachers and 422 students in the school.

Headmaster of the school Dilman Tamang presented an annual report of 1999-2000 and a budget of Rs 270,000 for the fiscal year 2000-2001.

Chairman of he school management body Dhan Bahadur Tamang presided over the function.