Kavrepalanchok, 13 October: It has been a month since the floods caused a huge loss of life here. The incessant rains that occurred last October 10th to 12th caused huge damage to people's wealth in various local levels of Kavre, as well as causing damage to agriculture, livestock, education, roads, communication and electricity.

Even after a month has passed since the incident, complete details about the various damages other than the human losses in the district have not been collected. Even the local level is not able to publicize the complete details of the damage in their area at this time. Out of the 13 local levels of the district, Roshi and Bethanchok Rural Municipality and Panauti Municipality are among the most affected areas.

Even though Banepa and Dhulikhel were not declared as crisis zones, based on preliminary assessment, they have fallen into the category of loss of more than one billion rupees along with loss of human wealth. They have been requesting the government to declare the disaster area through district disaster management committee and city meetings.

Chief District Officer and Committee Coordinator Umesh Dhakal said that preliminary details are coming and full details will be available in a few weeks. According to him, for more financial support and relief to the victims, the work of collecting accurate details of the damage has been started at the local level since last week.

Dhulikhel mayor Ashok Banjoo along with a team of people's representatives have met the deputy prime minister and the urban development minister and the home minister and have drawn attention to include them in the crisis-hit areas. City chief Banju said that the complete details of all the damage caused by the recent disaster in the city will be made public in a few days.  

78 people died in last October's landslide in Kavre. Six people are still missing and 79 people have been injured, according to District Police Office Dhulikhel. According to the office, 867 people were rescued by helicopter and 3,299 people were rescued by other means.

According to the preliminary information received so far in the district, it is estimated that around 4,000 private houses have been completely damaged and 7,000 houses have been partially damaged. Three dozen government buildings and the same number of public buildings were completely damaged.

Similarly, after eight kilometers of roads were completely damaged in various road sections of Kavrepalanchok under the BP highway, one-way traffic was conducted with temporary diversion, while most of the 19 major rural roads were blocked by landslides. At present, all the roads except Khanikhola rural municipality have come into operation.

Similarly, out of 48 bridges that were damaged, seven were completely damaged and three were partially damaged, while 38 have been repaired. It is estimated that 215 million rupees have been damaged in 96 irrigation projects, while 20 million rupees have been damaged in 36 embankment projects.

Similarly, it has been found that water supply and sanitation projects have suffered the most damage. According to the initial damage report, two kilometers of pipes of the Kavre Valley Integrated Water Supply Project, which includes three cities, have been blown. It is estimated that there has been a loss of 10 million rupees in this mishap. Dhulikhel Water Consumer Committee has suffered damage worth Rs 4 crore due to the leakage of three km of pipes and damage to other structures.

The loss of 8 million rupees in the Temal large water supply project and around 100 water supply projects operating in the district has caused a loss of about 1 billion rupees, said Rajendra Prasad Shrestha, Project Chief Engineer of the Federal Water Supply and Sewerage Management Project, Bhaktapur.

Four health institutions, about two dozen towers of Nepal Telecom and optical fibers, telephone poles, wires have been damaged. 11 meters high poles of 774 electricity HT lines and 1 thousand 149 poles of 9 meters high MT lines have been completely damaged. It is said that 22 out of 44 transformers have been completely damaged. 

According to the District Agriculture Office, 7,130 families have been affected by the flood. 2 thousand nine metric tons of rice, 84 metric tons of corn, 4 thousand two 78 metric tons of vegetables and 6 thousand three hundred and 71 metric tons of other crops have been damaged.