Sindhupalchok, June 5 -- A decade after the 2015 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated Sindhupalchok, the reconstruction of school infrastructure across the district is nearing completion. From remote Himalayan settlements to mid-hill villages, modern school buildings now stand where the disaster destroyed 3,620 classrooms in 528 schools.

According to the District Project Implementation Unit (Education), reconstruction has been completed in almost all schools, with only a handful of projects yet to be finished.

Baikuntha Subedi, chief of the unit, said around 200 schools were rebuilt with support from donor agencies and non-governmental organisations, while the government funded the rest. Most major reconstruction works were complet...