Gyanodaya Bal Batika School

Gyanodaya Bal Batika School is a school in Sanepa, Lalitpur, Nepal It was established in 1975 A.D in memory of Gyan Bahadur Yakthumba.

Gyanodaya Bal Batika School was established in 1975 (2031 B.S.) coinciding with the coronation of Birendra Bir Bikram Shah. This day has since come to be observed as Education Day in Nepal.

Indira Yakthumba founded the school as a tribute to the memory of her husband, former policeman and diplomat Gyan Bahadur Yakthumba, who died in 1970 when he was 50. He was a soldier, freedom fighter, crusader of the oppressed and under privileged, champion of civil liberty, human rights and justice and a diplomat.

With an ever-growing student population coming from almost all entire 75 districts of Nepal, there was a demand on the school management from the parent community to provide for a residential facility.

The Residential School caters to boarding education for children from the valley as well as outside. It has about 350 students studying from Grade I to X. It is on its own premises at Bungamati, Khokana, about 12 km on the outskirts of Kathmandu and easily accessible by road. It is in a land sprawling an area of over 100 ropanies surrounded by the forested slopes of the Hatiban hills in the southwest and verdant agricultural cultivation in the terraced slopes of the Bungamati hills in the northeast.

The school is equipped with playgrounds, auditorium, IT access, audio-visual aids, science laboratory and a library. It has a team to attend to the health needs of the hostel inmates.

The higher secondary wing by the name Gyanodaya Higher Secondary School was registered with the Higher Secondary Education Board in 1996 and started the 10+2 classes in the three streams of science, management and humanities.

Initially, the classes for 10+2 were conducted in the same premises of Gyanodaya Bal Batika at Sanepa but a separate infrastructure has been developed with its own compound at Jhamsikhel.

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