Parbat. The residents of Ambot, Kushma Municipality-3, have collected donations and constructed a hiking trail. Since there is no road to Ambot Basic School, located in the forest about 500 meters above the highway, people from home and abroad have collected donations and constructed the hiking trail.
Meena Gurung, the principal of the school, said that 1.1 million rupees were collected for the construction of the hiking trail. She said that the hiking trail had to be constructed to reach the school, which offers English medium education from infants to grade three. Currently, 31 students are studying in the school.
The school was established in 2052 BS at the initiative of social worker Khadka Bahadur Gurung. At that time, after the Pokhara-Baglung road was opened, people who migrated to Ambot from villages such as Nimne, Kathure, Hyardi, Bharati, Bhum, Okhaldhunga, and others in the former Durlung and Bajung VDCs collected donations and opened the school.
Headmaster Gurung said that his father brought the school into operation at that time after seeing that children were having problems in their studies. The school had started a fundraising campaign last Asoj for the construction of the trekking route. 1146,723 donations were received from 104 people living in the village and abroad.
With the said amount, a 300-meter-long staircase with an iron railing has been constructed to reach the school, while with the remaining amount, a small playground has been constructed by placing iron pillars and pouring cement on the school premises.
Principal Gurung said that students aged two to eight years go to the school to study. Due to the lack of an easy road to reach the school, young students were forced to walk on a difficult path with stones and gravel. Principal Gurung informed that there is currently a shortage of drinking water and electricity in the school.
School Management Committee Chair Sirjana Rana Magar informed that there is a problem in connecting the meter box of electricity and drinking water in the school located on the land of the local community forest. According to her, the school needs a concrete building and one teacher for the Montessori level. Two primary school permanent and two private teachers are working in the school. The school, which is run under the leadership and management of women, has a chairperson and four female teachers.
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