School scholarship funds go unspent while students drop out due to poverty

Hardly Rs150 million was distributed to the target student groups in the previous fiscal year leaving around Rs700 million unspent.

Seventeen-year-old Bhakta Bahadur Magar of Sitganga Municipality in Arghakhanchi district quit his studies in 2019. He stopped going to school after completing grade 8 because his parents couldn’t afford to pay for his education.