Kavrepalanchok. The floods and landslides that followed the incessant rains in the second week of Asoj 2081 caused the highest loss of life and property in Bagmati Province in Kavrepalanchok. About seven months after the incident, the government has started a detailed damage assessment of private homes in Roshi Rural Municipality, which suffered the most loss of life and property here.
Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak started it on Wednesday from Roshi Rural Municipality-2, Narayantar. He started the detailed damage assessment by providing damage assessment certificates to three victims of Ward No. 2 of the municipality.
On that day, the victims, local Dhansingh Lama, Rajan Bohora Chhetri and Shubhadra Sechuri, received certificates from the Home Minister. The work was initiated from the most affected Roshi rural municipality in the incident and now the Home Minister Lekhak also instructed to do homework so that the damage assessment is carried out in all the affected municipalities in the same way. Before providing relief to the victims, Lekhak had observed the flood-affected Narayantar.
Home Minister Lekhak admitted that there was a delay in starting the reconstruction work for those affected by the flood and landslides, and informed that the government will provide a grant of Rs 50,000 in two phases for the construction of temporary housing and Rs 75 million for the construction of permanent houses. The government has released Rs 73.5 million in Kavre for the construction of temporary housing on Wednesday alone, and 18 technicians have been deployed in Kavre Palanchok for a detailed damage assessment. Special attention has been drawn to the local people’s representatives and the Chief District Officer for its facilitation.
Five hundred and sixty-three houses have been damaged in Roshi Rural Municipality. Damage assessment work has been started by forming three clusters in Roshi. The rural municipality will start work accordingly only after the technician examines the damage and determines the details. Chief District Officer Umesh Kumar Dhakal says that he is confident that it will now gain momentum as it is easier to start reconstruction work in the district after a detailed damage assessment from the landslide. “We are confident that now it will be easier for the government to support the construction of infrastructure including bridges, physical structures, embankments and other private houses in the affected areas,” Dhakal said.
Dinesh Bhatta, CEO of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, said that if the victims want to build temporary and permanent housing at the same time, that is also possible, but a detailed damage assessment should be mandatory for that. He said, “Previously, the local level entered the authority’s portal and now, with the complete damage assessment, it will be easier to provide more effective relief/grants from the data.”
Nepalese Congress central member Shiva Prasad Humagain said that temporary and permanent housing can be constructed only if emphasis is placed on the construction of the road to Roshi before the coming monsoon season, and drew the government’s attention to the fact that the few remaining bridges in Falametar that were washed away by the flood cannot be saved, which will make the coming days even more difficult. 81 people have died in Kavrepalanchok due to floods and landslides, while six are still listed as missing. The floods and landslides damaged billions of rupees worth of physical structures, bridges, hospitals, schools, museums, etc. The floods and landslides caused the most loss of life and property in the Roshi area of Panauti Municipality and Roshi and Bethanchowk rural municipalities among the 13 local levels of the district.
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