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Text of report Sanjay Neupane/ Bijay Babu Khatri published by Nepalese newspaper Kantipur on 14 October
Janakpur [central Nepal], 13 October: Nepalese living abroad have announced that they would invest more than 150 million rupees on different social sectors including education, health, discussion halls and computers. They have said that the investment would deepen their ties with the motherland and begin collaboration for the building of a new Nepal.
The Nepalese living abroad, who gathered in Janakpur to mark the non-resident Nepalese Day, came up with different projects aimed at local level transformation.
Aditya Jha, who runs a business in Canada, has said that he would donate more than 3000 laptop computers to government schools. During the first phase, students of Saraswati Secondary School in Janakpur will get 100 computers. The chief guest at the Non Resident Nepalese (NRN) Day, President Ram Baran Yadav, and NRN Association chief Upendra Mahato handed out some laptops as a symbolic gesture on Monday [13 October].
Jha's project is somewhat similar to the UN plan of one laptop per child scheme. At the rate of 300...