Lalitpur: St Xavier’s School, one of the premier schools in Nepal and run by the Nepal Jesuit Society (NJS) is celebrating its diamond jubilee on May 6 on the school premises in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur.

The school was established on July 5, 1951 by Father Marshall D Moran on the request of the government of Nepal.

The school, which first started at Godavari in Lalitpur with 65 students is now among the most reputed academic institutions with hundreds of students from pre-primary to the college level studying there.

Father Boniface Tigga, the regional superior of the Jesuits in Nepal, told a press conference at the school in Jawalakhel, that around 3,000 students are studying in the school level in four schools—two in Jhapa and one each at Godavari and Jawalakhel—while around 3,500 are pursuing higher education at St Xavier’s College at Maitighar.

Apart from the schools, the NJS also operates a Child Care Centre for the mentally challenged children in Pokhara and Jawalakhel, a drug abuse rehabilitation centre, Freedom Centre, at Nakkhipot in Lalitpur and the Human Development Research Centre at Sanepa.

“We are looking forward to opening two more schools—one at Sadakbari in Jhapa and the other at Hemja in Kaski, targeting children from the deprived community,” Father Amrit Rai, the Principal of St Xavier’s Jawalakhel, said.

source: The Kathmandu Post, 29 April 2012