Kavrepalanchok District Recommends List for Permanent Housing Reconstruction After Flood Damage

Kavrepalanchok. A year and a half after floods and landslides caused damage, the District Disaster Management Committee has started recommending the list of affected individuals for the construction of permanent housing. The committee's meeting held on Monday decided to recommend the list of victims from Roshi Rural Municipality whose houses were fully or partially damaged in the floods and landslides of Ashoj 2081.

In the first phase, the committee recommended permanent construction for 199 houses and retrofitting for 40 houses in the said rural municipality. The committee's coordinator, Chief District Officer Gopal Kumar Adhikari, stated that the recommendation process for permanent housing construction, following an investigation into the housing damage caused by last year's disaster in Kavre, has begun. According to him, since the recommendation for permanent housing from Roshi Rural Municipality to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has started, recommendations for other local levels in the district will follow sequentially.

The government had decided to provide a grant of NPR 400,000 for the permanent reconstruction of houses damaged by the floods and landslides of Ashoj 2081. Furthermore, based on the same decision, a policy was formulated where the Federal Government would bear 50% of the NPR 400,000, the Provincial Government 30%, and the Local Level 20%. The District Administration Office stated that temporary housing grants received from the government have already been distributed to 2,895 households across 10 local levels in the district.

Twelve people died in Roshi Rural Municipality due to the floods and landslides. Additionally, 482 houses were completely damaged and 883 houses were partially damaged by the disaster. It was also reported that the farmlands of 2,544 families were damaged. Moreover, 60 drinking water projects, one concrete bridge, schools, and four health centers were damaged. The flood and landslides swept away the completed Damphu Park, a 10-bed hospital, and an industrial village including a cold storage center.

In last year's floods and landslides in Ashoj, 81 people lost their lives in the district. Six people are still listed as missing, and around one hundred people were injured. The detailed assessment of private housing damage began in Roshi Rural Municipality, which suffered the most significant loss of life and property in the district, starting from the last week of Chaitra.