Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has kept his promise of extending help to a primary school in West Bengal and donated Rs 11.91 lakh for the construction of a new building that will now be named after Latin American freedom icon Simon Bolivar. A cheque was handed over to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday by Venezuelan Ambassador to India, Milena Santana Ramirez, for the construction of a new building of the Bagu Primary School at Rajarhat in North 24 Parganas district. During a visit to West Bengal in 2005, Chavez had promised the school authorities of financial help for the construction of the building and for improvement of the mid-day meal scheme for children, Ramirez told reporters.
The school, to be named after Venezuelan revolutionary Bolivar as wished by Chavez, had teachers like Nikunja Sen, who inspired freedom fighters Badal Gupta, Benoy Bose and Dinesh Gupta.
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