With its new building, Durbar High School attracts students from private schools

Parents who no longer could afford to send their kids to private schools as their income was shrunk by the pandemic are now looking at the government school as an alternative.

Sunday was the first day of school for Anjelica Tamrakar. The ninth grader, who was studying at a private school in Kathmandu, is now attending a government school at the heart of Kathmandu—one of the oldest in the country.