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Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development Minister Prakashman Singh has said that slums should be made safe by effective implementation of laws. He also said that all the structures to be built in the future should be made earthquake resistant.
In a program organized on the occasion of the 27th Earthquake Safety Day held in Kathmandu on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Singh said that the settlements should be protected by effective implementation of the laws and the necessary changes in them to facilitate the legal complexity, and by formulating necessary new plans and policies.
Deputy Prime Minister Singh said that Nepal is frequently affected by disasters such as floods, landslides, epidemics, fires, and earthquakes. He said that it is necessary to improve preparedness and search and rescue conditions accordingly in order to be safe from disasters.
Singh learned lessons from history and opined that houses and physical structures should be made earthquake resistant. Our country is frequently affected by disasters such as floods, landslides, epidemics, fires, and earthquakes. It is imperative to follow the National Building Code to reduce the loss of property caused by earthquakes. In order to be safe from disasters such as floods, landslides, epidemics, fires, lightning, and hailstorms, it is necessary to improve preparedness and search and rescue conditions accordingly, Singh said. Loss of people's wealth had to be incurred. Learning lessons from history, it is today's need to make the building structure earthquake resistant.'
Singh said that legal adequacy should also be taken into account in the construction of physical structures. He said that attention should be paid to the effective implementation of existing laws and the creation of new laws. "Full compliance of the National Building Code and the implementation of the risk-sensitive land use plan requires the cooperation of all of us." It is equally necessary to spread public awareness in order to safely construct physical structures including buildings in relation to risk reduction. We have to protect our settlements by making necessary changes, necessary new plans and policies to facilitate the effective implementation of the laws that have been created and ease the legal complexity," he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Singh said that natural disasters and calamities do not know geographical boundaries and cooperation and cooperation of all is necessary.
