India has gifted 2,000 bicycles to poor Dalit girls in Nepal to encourage them to enrol in schools and enhance the literacy rate among them.
Bicycles were given to poor dalit girls studying in different government schools in Nepal, the Indian Embassy said in a statement.
The gifting of bicycles to poor dalit girl students programme was conceived to enhance the literacy rate among girls in Nepal and also to encourage girls from poor and dalit families to enrol in schools.