Almost 2 years later, the contract for reconstruction was finally started
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Dal Bahadur Mahar of Nalgad Municipality-1 of Jajarkot returned home to celebrate Dasain in the first week of October last year after almost 5 years. He worked as a security guard in a pharmaceutical company in India and was living there with his family.
His wife Tulsa and daughter Anjila, who were thinking of returning after Tihar, lost their lives in the earthquake that occurred on October 17, 2080. His 59-year-old father Chandrasekhar Mahar said, "Now that the festival has come, the earthquake and the pain of my sons and daughters and granddaughters are bothering me. I have been living in a temporary roof for two years, so this year we have not kept a jamra."
Last year, 13 people died in an earthquake in Chiuritol alone. Balivan Mahar, the local leader, said that most of the locals did not celebrate Dasai because the annuity was not completed last year, and this year too, most of them did not celebrate Jamra. "Before the earthquake, when Dasai came, it used to be a job to decorate the house, bring new clothes, goats, and eat sweets for Dasai," he said. Not fun.
Until two years ago, most of the villages in Jajarkot used to gather during Dasain to make ping, dance and participate in various sports competitions.
"We used to enter the excitement of Dasain by playing sweet food and fun games. Last year, disaster struck at the mouth of Tihar. Living in Tahara is difficult," said Priti Bahadur Budha of Nalgad-6. He goes to India for seasonal labor from May to October and from November to March, but since the earthquake, he has not been able to go out, nor to find other jobs in the village.
Achyut Prasad Sharma, the headmaster of Ramzan Basic School in Bheri Municipality, said that due to the negligence of the government, the earthquake victims suffered two winters and one winter.
The government has made a procedure to give four lakh rupees per family for the reconstruction of private housing. It is mentioned in the procedure to give 2.5 lakh rupees for strengthening and 1 lakh rupees for general maintenance.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, the earthquake damaged around 76,000 houses in Jajarkot and Rukum West. Out of which 48 thousand 517 beneficiaries have been established in Jajarkot alone. About 43,000 of them have built temporary housing.
Chief District Officer of Jajarkot Rajuprasad Paudel said that the local levels have started an agreement with the beneficiaries for reconstruction. According to him, so far 600 beneficiaries have signed a reconstruction contract in Bheri municipality, and a recommendation has been made to retain 1,400 more beneficiaries. He informed that Nalgad Municipality has recommended to retain about 3 thousand beneficiaries.
Chief District Officer Poudel said that for the reconstruction, the Ward Office should make an agreement with the beneficiary and recommend the beneficiary to the District Disaster Management Committee through the Local Disaster Management Committee (local level).
'We will verify the details sent by the local level, only after that the reconstruction authority will send us the budget,' he said, 'We will send the reconstruction funds to the concerned local level only after the budget comes.' The federal government has allocated 21 billion rupees for reconstruction.
