Materials are being distributed to restore services with priority to 154 out of 401 damaged wards across the province.
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Materials worth around 1.8 million rupees were handed over to Duhabi Municipality on Friday as part of a special campaign launched by the Koshi Provincial Government to restore service delivery to local levels affected by the protests on Bhadra 24.
Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki handed over 11 types of materials including laptops, drawers, tables and chairs, printers, UPS, biometric attendance equipment, networking switches, medicines and plastic chairs to Mayor Ved Narayan Gachhadar during a ceremony.
Materials are being distributed to 154 out of 411 wards across the province to restore services on a priority basis.
The provincial government has started a plan to hand over materials worth Rs 61.8 million to 30 local levels of Koshi Province. 37 out of 137 local levels in the province were affected by the protests.
Chief Minister Karki said that 'since the work of the people is done from the wards, a campaign for service restoration and capacity building has been taken forward by giving priority to the local level.' According to him, the assistance received is being distributed systematically to the targeted wards and offices. He also informed that all the materials will be distributed within the next 10 days.
This assistance has been provided in coordination with the development cooperation program of the Swiss government. The Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, Koshi, has stated that the materials were managed in coordination with the provincial government and development partner agencies at the initiative of Chief Minister Karki.
Mayor Ved Narayan Gachhadar said that the damage in Duhabi alone was worth about Rs 46.5 million, and said, 'The provincial government's direct handover of materials has given us additional encouragement.'
The provincial government has adopted a policy of rapidly advancing service restoration, reconstruction and infrastructure development in collaboration with the local level.
