Nepal’s Madhesh undergoes a paradigm shift in educating girls

The Tri-Juddha High School in Birgunj of Parsa is one of the country’s first schools established by Juddha Shumsher in 1938. Even though the school was co-ed from the start, it rarely saw girls during its formative years.

When Babu Lal Chachan, an industrialist from Brigunj, went to this school in the 1980s, there was only one girl in the entire school. With the mindset that educating girls was not important, parents rarely sent them to study as they would burden them with household chores instead.