After 14 months after the earthquake damage, the construction work of the damaged structure in Darma Rural Municipality of Salyan has picked up speed. With Jajarkot as the center, there was an earthquake on Friday night on October 17 last year.
This earthquake damaged the houses of 4 thousand 80 civilians in Darma Rural Municipality. Likewise, 59 public structures including 36 schools, 9 health institutions, two ward offices, 12 water supply, irrigation and roads have been partially damaged.
The chief administrative officer of the municipality, Resham Bahadur Wali, said that due to insufficient budget allocation by the government, only 16 damaged public structures are being reconstructed and two are in the process. Recently, with the financial support of the British government, the World Food Program, Federal Project Implementation Unit Office, Jajarkot and Infrastructure Development Office Salyan, are now building damaged structures.
14 projects are being constructed with four irrigation canals, five drinking water, two roads, one school, one ward office, and one footpath from the budget of 80 million allocated by the World Food Program.
Similarly, the Federal Project Implementation Unit Office, Jajarkot, is constructing a Health Chowki at Ward No.-1 Darmakot and a Health Unit Center Building at Ward No.-5 Kangunohalna by allocating 30 million. Infrastructure Development Office Salyan said that out of the 30 million budget for the construction of earthquake-affected structures, the process of construction of basic schools in Dhakadam and Kalika will be started from 15 million.
Chairman of Darma Rural Municipality, Neem Bahadur KC, said that the World Food Program is working on the construction of structures damaged by the earthquake by giving priority to the structures that are labor-based, can create jobs, and damaged structures. He said that four irrigation canals, five drinking water, two roads, one tourist trail, one school building and one ward office are being constructed from the project.
