Japanese Ambassador to Nepal, Tsutomu Hiraoka, inaugurated and handed over the Saraswati Primary School Building of Masyam village development committee (VDC) Palpa to the School Management Committee, amidst a function on Thursday.

A press statement issued by the Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu said the Embassy of Japan has extended a grant of sixty-eight thousand, two hundred and eighty-eight US Dollars to Masyam VDC for the implementation of the project for construction of Saraswati Primary School Building under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP).

Out of the total project cost of NRs. 6,412,122, Masyam VDC, the school and the community contributed up to 25 percent of the cost; which included locally available material required for construction, as well as and labor costs etc, the statement adds.

Similarly, the procurement of reference and text books for the library, the construction of a water tank and partial cost of toilet construction, amongst other things, was also borne by the VDC, school and local community.