KATHMANDU, Sept 7: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has been declared as a literate metropolis on Monday. According to Ramprada Subedi, chief of Department of Education, Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya claimed that Kathmandu has fulfilled all the criterias needed to declare it as a literate metropolis. 

According to statistics prepared by the Center for Education and Human Resources Development, the literacy rate of Nepal among people aged between 15 to 60 years has reached 80 percent.  

“There is an international criteria that requires 95 percent literacy to declare a district as literate. As many as 96.6 percent of people aged between 15 to 60 years are considered literate in Kathmandu Metropolis. With the statistics, The mayor declared Kathmandu a literate metropolis under this basis,” Chief Subedi informed Republica. Nepal will be declared a literate nation after Bagmati Province is pronounced a literate province, he added.

 
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