NCP calls on its cadres and people’s representatives to involve in rescue, relief works

Kathmandu - Today’s standing committee meeting of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has called on all people’s representatives, party cadres, youths and students to mobilise in rescue, relief and rehabilitation task with feeling of altruism during the time of natural disaster.

Though the meeting did not hold discussions on its regular agenda, it drew government’s attention to make rescue and relief task more effective, to make arrangement of free and reliable medical treatment to the injured and temporary housing for the homeless and to protect the children, who lost their parents to the natural disaster, keeping the situation of natural disaster in mind.

Emerging from the meeting, NCP Spokesperson Narayankaji Shrestha said that the meeting urged the bodies concerned to resume the traffic by immediately carrying out repair and maintenance of the damaged roads and bridges. The proposal passed from the fourth meeting that began from June 24 has mentioned that different places of the country have been inundated due to flood and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall with the beginning of monsoon from June 12.

A total of 233 people have lost their lives, 98 have gone missing and 99 have been injured due to natural disaster till the date. Two hundred eighty-two houses suffered complete damage and hundreds of people became homeless and displaced due to incidents of natural disaster. Traffic has been completely obstructed due to the damage to highways, road sections and bridges owing to the disaster.

The standing committee meeting wished for speedy recovery of the injured and expressed condolence to the bereaved families. It paid tribute to those losing their lives in natural disaster incidents. The meeting has been postponed till July 28 as top leaders have been holding consultation on other political agendas.