New Delhi: The foundation stone for the India-funded Khamlalung Health Post has been laid in Aathrai Rural Municipality in Terhathum, Nepal. The health post is being constructed with financial support from the Government of India under the Nepal-India Development Cooperation initiative. The project aims to provide better medical infrastructure facilities to the people of Nepal, including a double-storied building comprising an emergency ward, maternity ward, general ward, administration section, and other facilities.
Dignitaries Present at the ceremony
The foundation stone for the construction was laid jointly by Sita Gurung, Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, Constituency-1, Terhathum; Dil Kumar Pahim, Chairman, Aathrai Rural Municipality, Terhathum and Avinash Kumar Singh, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu.
Nepal-India Development Cooperation
India has been a major development partner of Nepal since the 1950s, providing assistance in a range of sectors including infrastructure, health, education, and human resource development. The government of India’s grant of NRs. 35.40 million is being utilized by Nepal for the current Health Post initiative, which is being taken up as a High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP). Moreover, it is the first HICDP undertaken in the district of Terhathum.
Other India-Nepal HICDPs
Since 2003, the Indian Government has initiated more than 563 HICDPs in Nepal across multiple sectors and has completed 490 of them till now. Under these, 91 projects are in Koshi Province. In addition, the Government has gifted more than one thousand ambulances and 300 school buses to various hospitals, health posts, and educational institutions in Nepal on the occasions of Independence Day and Republic Day of India. From these, 146 ambulances (including one ambulance provided to Khamlalung Health Post) and 48 school buses have been gifted in Koshi Province.
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